DOE’s FECM invests in research, development, demonstration, and deployment projects to reduce emissions from fossil energy production and use and key industrial processes, while strengthening U.S. energy and critical minerals security. FECM is committed to improving the economic and environmental conditions of communities, retaining, and creating good-paying jobs, and supporting domestic energy, industrial production, and manufacturing across our nation.
NETL is a U.S. DOE national laboratory. The Critical Minerals and Materials (CMM) Program aims to rebuild U.S. leadership in extraction and processing technologies for the production of critical minerals and materials (CMM) that include rare earth elements (REE), critical minerals, and materials deemed critical by the DOE, from secondary and unconventional resources to support an economical, environmentally benign, and geopolitically sustainable U.S. domestic supply chain.
The School of Energy Resources (SER) at the University of Wyoming (UW) was created in 2006 to enhance the university’s energy-related education, research and outreach. SER directs and integrates cutting-edge energy research and academic programs at UW and bridges academics and industry through targeted outreach programs. UW is a national leader in critical mineral and rare earth element related research, investigating the entire supply chain from both conventional and unconventional resources. Areas of interest include exploration, extraction, processing technologies, as well as workforce development.
KeyLogic set out to build a top-tier company to support its customers’ critical missions in the energy, commerce, and defense sectors. Focusing on its customers’ complex missions, data intensive challenges, and security imperatives, KeyLogic optimizes resources and expertise at scale with agility and innovation. KeyLogic employs over 700 team members, including systems designers, developers, data scientists, IT and cybersecurity specialists, engineers, mission experts, program managers, and more than 70 Ph.D. scientists. This multidisciplinary team works together solving challenging problems with anticipatory service—always staying one step ahead—benefiting our customers, and ultimately helping build a better world.
ENTECH Strategies LLC provides consulting services to accelerate the clean energy transition and achieve net zero including: strategic planning and engagement, business development, federal R&D funding strategy, policy and advocacy engagement, STEM education, and workforce development. ENTECH is also a partner in a number of carbon management projects, a clean tech start-up, and founded and manages the Research Experience in Carbon Sequestration (RECS), a U.S. Department of Energy sponsored program and career network focused on accelerating CCUS and CDR deployment.
RER’s Bear Lodge Project in Weston and Crook counties, Wyoming excels with its proprietary state-of-the-art separation technology, developed with General Atomics, and a world-class rare earth deposit, producing high-purity Nd/Pr oxide for magnets crucial to defense, energy, and tech. The $53M+ Demonstration Plant in Upton – backed by the DOE and the Wyoming Energy Authority – is set to deliver ~10 tonnes of commercial-grade Nd/Pr oxide in 2025. RER is committed to driving U.S. rare earth independence, jobs, and efficient production for local communities.