# The Circular Supply Chains Accelerator

Source: https://welltoldgrants.com/grants/de-foa-0003512-the-circular-supply-chains-accelerator/  
Official notice: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358262

> Golden Field Office offered grants of up to $12.5 million (at least $7.5 million) to any type of organization. It expected to make one award worth $12.5 million in total. Applications closed on July 18, 2025.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Opportunity number | DE-FOA-0003512 |
| Agency | Golden Field Office |
| Status | Forecast |
| Deadline | July 18, 2025 |
| Award ceiling | $12.5 million |
| Award floor | $7.5 million |
| Expected awards | 1 |
| Total funding | $12.5 million |
| Cost sharing | required |
| Assistance Listings | 81.117 |

## Who can apply

- Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"

## What the grant funds

The current economic model used across the world is largely linear, where resources are extracted and made into products that are discarded at their end of use. This continual demand for primary materials often creates supply chain insecurity, as many critical resources are not available domestically. In addition, the standard linear economy model results in significant energy use and carbon emissions, generates large volumes of waste, and removes materials from the economy that still have significant value. Instead, a circular economy model promotes retaining products and materials in the economy as long as possible, using pathways such as reuse, repair, remanufacture, and recycling. This contributes to secure, domestic supply chains of important materials, minimizes the environmental impacts of the products and materials we use, and maximizes economic benefits by keeping products and materials in the economy as long as possible. Advancing a circular economy is critical to achieving¿the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's (EERE's) mission. Recently, EERE published Circularity for Secure and Sustainable Products and Materials: A Draft Strategic Framework, along with a Request for Information (RFI).1 This Strategic Framework describes EERE’s goals and efforts in circularity across the products and materials that are most important to clean energy technologies. It also identifies challenges and opportunities to leverage circularity for securing supply chains, advancing decarbonization, benefiting communities, and creating jobs. The Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO) led the development of this document; taking a wholistic approach to advancing a more circular economy is a key focus of AMMTO’s secure and sustainable materials program. Unlike most approaches to increasing supply chain security and decarbonization, circularity has the potential to have a significant impact in the near term. We are in a unique moment where awareness of and investment in circularity is growing, and technologies are being developed to advance these goals. This is an important opportunity to capitalize on this momentum and take ambitious actions that will drive national-level impacts in advancing the circular economy.

## Questions people ask

### Is DE-FOA-0003512 still open?

No. It closed on July 18, 2025. A newer notice is open: DE-FOA-0003648, closes April 26, 2027 (170 days left).

### Who can apply for The Circular Supply Chains Accelerator?

Golden Field Office accepted applications from any type of organization.

### What is the deadline for The Circular Supply Chains Accelerator?

Closed July 18, 2025. Applications are no longer accepted; the program's newer notices are on this page when there are any.

### How much funding is available?

Awards of up to $12.5 million each. About $12.5 million in total for one award.

### Who has won Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Information Dissemination, Outreach, Training and Technical Analysis/Assistance grants before?

The largest recipients over five fiscal years were State of Indiana, Colorado Energy Office, State of California Energy Commission. The program made 285 awards worth $1.1 billion in that time.