Original Closing Date: [October 5, 2026]
Description
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Hydrocarbons and Geothermal Energy Office (HGEO) is issuing this RFI to notify parties of its potential interest in connecting private capital/ public-private partnership programs to industry opportunities. This initiative provides HGEO’s technical expertise across the Office of Subsurface Energy’s three core program areas: Coal, Oil & Gas, and Geothermal. Ultimately, the goal is to use HGEO’s research and development (R&D) capabilities to support industry and capital.
Through this RFI, DOE requests input from all stakeholders, particularly the financial sector, to gauge investor interest in the development and commercialization of subsurface-energy technologies.
Purpose
This RFI requests feedback from capital providers (Venture Capital, Angel Investors, Financial Institutions, etc.) and adjacent organizations (Incubators, Accelerators, Venture Studios, etc.) as well as industry, academia, research laboratories, government agencies, and other stakeholders on investment in technologies identified below within HGEO’s Office of Subsurface Energy.
This is solely a request for information and not a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). DOE’s HGEO is not accepting applications for funding at this time.
Submission
Responses to this RFI must be submitted electronically to DE-FOA-0003671@netl.doe.gov no later than 5:00 PM (ET) on October 5, 2026. Responses must be emailed as a Microsoft Word (docx) attachment that is no more than 10 pages long, 12-point font, one-inch margins. Attachments with file sizes exceeding 25MB should be compressed (i.e., zipped) to ensure message delivery.
Full text of the Request for Information can be found at DOE: NETL eXCHANGE: Funding Opportunities
