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40302 Carbon Utilization Procurement Grants
- DE-FOA-0002829
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Deadlines: Concept paper: Required, can be submitted anytime. Full application due 4.30.24
The DOE Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) announced funding of up to $100 million to support states, local governments, and public utilities in purchasing products derived from converted carbon emissions. The goal is to speed up adoption of advanced carbon management technologies, creating a market for environmentally sustainable alternatives in fuels, chemicals, and building products sourced from captured emissions from industrial and power generation facilities. The Utilization Procurement Grants program will award demonstration grants, called UPGrants to allow eligible entities to procure and use commercial or industrial products that are derived from anthropogenic carbon oxides. Maximum grant funding is based on the Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) of a specific product, as set by the vendor:
1) Grants up to $3 Million available if LCA demonstrates that their product reduces greenhouse gas emissions by at least 10% from the incumbent baseline
2) Grants of up to $8 Million available if LCA demonstrates a reduction plan of at least 25%.
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High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI) Initiative
- LLNL-MI-851175
- Deadline: Concept paper due 8.17.23, Full application due 11.11.2023.
The DOE Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) will fund $45M for support of industry partners via the use of HPC to bolster domestic materials supply chains needed to reduce industrial emissions. Specific areas of interest include projects that will advance materials used for direct air capture, biomass carbon removal and storage, enhanced mineralization, and marine carbon dioxide removal. HPC4EI is the parent initiative for the HPC4Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) and HPC4Materials (HPC4Mtls) Programs, both of which will be funded by the HPC4EI Summer 2023 Solicitation.
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Non-IIJA Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOA)
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IRA 50123 State-Based Home Energy Efficiency Contractor Training Grant Program
The DOE State and Community Energy Programs (SCEP) has released the allocations and the development and application guidance for this energy-contractor training program. As a Formula Grant, restricted eligibility applies; Commerce will apply to receive the Minnesota allocation of $2.8 million in funding to develop and implement a state workforce energy program that prepares workers to deliver energy efficiency, electrification, and clean energy improvements, including those covered under the Home Energy Performance-Based, Whole House Rebate Program (HOMES) and the Home Electrification and Appliance Rebate Program (HEAR) (also called HEEHRA or High Efficiency Electric Home Rebate Program). We encourage interested workforce development, training and other interested entities to make Commerce aware of your interest via and email to [email protected]. Please include your priorities and ideas for harnessing resources within your community and your key constituents.
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IRA 50121 and IRA 50123 Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 Home Energy Rebates: Home Efficiency Rebates & Home Electrification and Appliance Rebates
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) authorized $8.8 billion in funding for the Home Efficiency Rebate and Home Electrification and Appliance Rebate Programs, together called the Home Energy Rebate Programs. These rebates will make it possible for more families to reduce their energy bills, make their homes more comfortable, and improve their indoor air quality. These improvements will save Americans $1 billion annually.
The DOE State and Community Energy Programs (SCEP) has released the guidance for the Home Energy Rebate Programs: Home Energy Rebates (also called HOMES) and the Home Electrification and Appliance Rebate (also called HEAR, formerly HEEHRA). As Formula Grant programs, application eligibility is restricted to States and Territories. Commerce will apply to receive the Minnesota allocation of $74,459,590 in HOMES allocated funding and $74,027,440 in HEAR allocated funding, for a total funding allocation of $148,487,030. Funds will be used develop, implement and fund the rebates under two separate consumer rebate programs for home efficiency, electrification and appliance replacement projects.
NOTES:
1) Funding is not yet available for consumers. Watch this e-newsletter and the Commerce Federal Funding web page for updates.
2) The DOE will release additional details regarding the Tribal Home Electrification and Appliance Rebates and the funding allocations for that program at a later date.
3) We encourage interested entities to make Commerce aware of your interest via an email to [email protected]. Please include your priorities and ideas for harnessing resources within your community and your key constituents.
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USDA Rural Energy for America Technical Assistance Grant Program
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Deadlines: Full application: 8.15.23
- Federal Register Notice
- Additional Information
- The USDA will award up to $21.25 million in grants to support entities providing technical assistance to agricultural producers and rural small businesses submitting full applications to the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP). Grants will prioritize applicants assisting distressed or disadvantaged communities, applicants pursuing projects using underutilized technologies, or applicants seeking grants under $20,000.
- Eligible applicants include units of State, Tribal, or local government; land-grant colleges, universities, or other higher education institutions; electric cooperatives, investor-owned utilities, and other utility entities; non-profit and for-profit entities, amongst others.
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Underserved and Indigenous Community Microgrids (UICM)
The DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and the DOE Office of Electricity has issued a FOA to support multi-year RD&D projects for tools and technologies to enhance the reliability and resilience of the nation’s energy infrastructure. Research will be focused on development and deployment/demonstration of advanced microgrid-enabling technologies, including renewable generation and storage systems, multi-nodal small-scale high-voltage direct current, advanced demand-side management strategies, and microgrid control systems providing replicable microgrid solutions to address the broad array of challenges facing underserved and Indigenous communities in remote and islanded regions throughout the United States.
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U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission University Nuclear Leadership Program
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced funding for a Scholarship and Fellowship Education Grant, Distinguished Faculty Advancement Grant, and Trade School and Community College Scholarship Grant for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023. The total amount of funding available is $10,000,000, with the number and amount of awards depending on the number, duration, costs, and merit of the applications received.
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Notice of Intent (NOI)
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IRA 60113 Mitigating Emissions from Marginal Conventional Wells
The DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), DOE Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM), together with the EPA, have announced their intent to offer a formula grant opportunity with up to $350 million to support gas well operators voluntarily and permanently plugging marginal conventional wells (MCWs) on non-Federal lands. Projects will also support environmental restoration of the well pad, and enhance industries and States’ capacities to monitor methane and other air pollutants from wells.
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Clean Hydrogen Production, Storage, Transport, and Utilization to Enable a Net-Zero Carbon Economy
The DOE issued a NOI to advise of a potential amendment to the previously issued FOA: Fossil Energy Based Production, Storage, Transport, and Utilization of Hydrogen Approaching Net-Zero or Net-Negative Carbon Emissions. The amended FOA, under the new name and FOA number above, will be up to $19 million in funding for cost-shared R&D project(s) focusing on:
1) Maturation of Technologies for Gasification-Based Clean Hydrogen Systems (Feedstock Delivery Component and Oxygen-Generating Component/ Air separation Unit);
2) Advanced Sensors to Enable Gasification to Provide Clean Hydrogen Meeting Hydrogen-Shot Cost Parameters;
3) Digital Twins for Advanced Monitoring, Detection, and Security for Integrated Hydrogen-Based Systems with Carbon Capture. Cost-share expected to be 20%.
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Advancing U.S. Thin-Film Solar
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) intends to release the Advancing U.S. Thin-Film Solar FOA of up to $36 million for research, development, and demonstration projects on two major thin-film photovoltaic (PV) technologies: metal halide perovskite PV and cadmium telluride (CdTe) PV. This FOA will promote American leadership in thin-film PV technology, and the domestic manufacture of thin-film PV modules. FOA issuance will support SETO in meeting Congressional direction provided in fiscal year 2023 to spend no less than $25 million each to support the advancement of both perovskite PV and CdTe PV technologies ($50 million in total).
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Distributed Energy Systems Demonstrations
The Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) intends to issue a FOA with up to $50 million to support the demonstrations that de-risk technologies needed to manage variable generation; control flexible loads; and integrate energy storage, electric vehicle (EV) charging, and other facilities into the U.S. transmission and distribution grids.
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Regional Initiative for Technical Assistance Partnerships (RITAP) to Advance Deployment of Basin Scale Carbon Transport and Storage and Community Engagement
The DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has the intent to release funding to support carbon transport and storage. Private sector entities have begun to formulate plans across all suitable geologic basins in the United States for large storage facilities and regional carbon management hubs, each consisting of multiple carbon sources, storage reservoirs, and transport mechanisms, such as pipelines, to link the sources and storage locations. To meet the demand for technical assistance, the DOE intends to offer support to developers of specific, well-defined, large-scale storage facilities or regional carbon management hubs, with a focus on localized needs and an emphasis on community engagement and community benefits. An additional area of interest under the potential funding opportunity will be on projects assembling, organizing, and analyzing geologic data as a means of facilitating the development of future large-scale storage facilities or carbon management hubs within their respective States.
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Enhancing the Electric Power Systems’ Reliability and Resilience via Sensor Data Analytics Demonstrations
The DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) expects to issue a funding opportunity with the objective of enhancing grid reliability and resilience in the age of big data. The FOA is anticipated to focus on a single Topic Area, Sensor Data Analytics Demonstrations, seeking to establish a portfolio of demonstration projects across a variety of geographic, economic, and climate conditions to create a varied and more comprehensive assessment of future deployment of advanced sensors technologies. Cost-share expected to be 20% for R&D activities and 50% for demonstration projects.
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Request for Information (RFI)
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Access to High Performing Computing Resources at DOE National Laboratories
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on behalf of the Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO) and the Fossil Energy and Carbon Management Office (FECM) has issued a RFI to better understand the perceived value of high-performance computing (HPC) capabilities to manufacturers and the experiences of companies that have interacted with the High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI) program.
The purpose of this RFI is to solicit feedback from the public, including key stakeholders in the manufacturing sector, especially from small and medium-sized manufacturers (SMMs) based in the U.S., past participants in funded programs through the DOE HPC4EI initiative, including HPC4Mfg (Manufacturing) and HPC4Mtls (Materials), and companies that may have an interest in participating in future HPC4EI programs.
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