This is a Request for Information (RFI) issued by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) in collaboration with the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM). The intent of this RFI is to obtain public input regarding additional approaches that current and future DOE programs could implement to help direct air capture (DAC) developers address challenges in raising project investment capital and achieving sustained facility operations.
The RFI seeks to understand how federal funding may complement existing DOE financial assistance mechanisms offering development, construction, and partial operations funding for first-of-a-kind (FOAK) commercial demonstrations, and supplement other government incentives (e.g., 45Q tax credit). This RFI seeks input on whether and how DOE should consider complementary programming (e.g., direct demand-pull mechanisms, other revenue support, other operational support) to enable and accelerate commercial scale-up of DAC technologies.