Recent and expected federal funding activity
The federal government issues a variety of announcements related to federal funding opportunities:? Requests for Information (RFI); Notices of Intent (NOI); and Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOA). More information can be found on the Commerce IIJA web page or by clicking the links below.
-- Open IIJA Notice of Intent (NOI):?
The DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) has utilized one Notice of Intent to cover three expected Funding Opportunity Notices, as delineated above.??
-- Open IIJA Requests for Information (RFI):?
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Section 41003 Critical Materials Research, Development, Demonstration?and Commercialization Program.
The DOE has issued this RFI to solicit regarding the?research priorities, managing mechanisms, and partnering opportunities for a Critical Materials RDD&CA Program, authorized by the Energy Act of 2020 and expanded and supported by the IIJA.
Non-IIJA?Announcements
-- Open Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOA):?
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Fiscal Year 2022 Solar Manufacturing Incubator?
- Submission Deadline for Letter of Intent: September 16th, 4:00 pm CDT
- Submission Deadline for Full Applications: October 3rd, 4:00 pm CDT
- DE-FOA-0002609; CFDA Number 81.087??
The DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Solar Technology Office seeks to invest in innovative research and development (R&D) as well as research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) projects that enable continued cost reductions, while developing next-generation solar technologies and boosting American solar manufacturing, especially in cadmium telluride (CdTe) photovoltaics.
Q&A and information on the Teaming Partners list, as well as links to a webinar held?August 3rd, can be found? on fedconnect.gov?.
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- Funding Opportunity in Support of the Hydrogen Shot and a University Research Consortium on Grid Resilience.
- Submission Deadline for Concept Papers: September 23th, 4:00pm CDT
- Submission Deadline for Full Applications: December 1st, 4:00 pm CDT
- DE-FOA-0002792;? CFDA Number: 81.087??
The DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) has issued this FOA to address two unique areas of interest: one with topic areas supporting the DOE Hydrogen Shot? and a second EERE-wide topic area focused on grid resilience through a university research consortium.?This FOA is seeking proposals on five topics under two Areas of Interest:
Area of Interest 1: Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies in Support of Hydrogen Shot
Area of Interest 2: Improving Electricity Grid Resilience
Q&A and information on the Teaming Partners list being assembled by DOE can be also be found? on fedconnect.gov?.
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Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Centers Program (EJ TCTAC)
- Submission Deadline: October 4th, 10:59pm CDT
- Funding Opportunity Number:?EPA-I-OP-OEJ-22-02
The Environmental Protection Agency (with potential DOE funding support), has issued a Request for Applications (RFA) to for proposals to develop Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Centers (TCTAC) to support Executive Orders? 13985 and 14008.?The EJ TCTAC?s will provide technical assistance, training, and other eligible forms of assistance, resources, and support to ?program participants" such as local and tribal units of government; non-profit, philanthropic, and civic organizations; underserved communities and organizations; community-based and grass-roots organizations; amongst other eligible participants.? The EPA and the DOE have a special interest in supporting EJ TCTAC's which will support rural and remote areas, underserved communities, and those with the highest energy burden and capacity restraints.
Applicants eligible to propose EJ TCTAC development projects are limited to:
-?Public and private universities and colleges
- Public and private nonprofit institutions/organizations (includes institutions of higher education such as community colleges, and philanthropic organizations);
-?Intertribal Consortia - a coalition between two or more Indian tribal governments authorized by the governing bodies of those tribes to apply for and receive assistance and participate in self-governance.?
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The Department of Energy?s (DOE?s) National Energy Technology Laboratory
(NETL), on behalf of the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency
Response (CESER) Risk Management Tools and Technologies (RMT) program, is
seeking applications under this funding opportunity?to advance cybersecurity tools and technologies specifically?designed to reduce cyber risks to energy delivery infrastructure.?The energy sector includes electricity and oil and?natural gas delivery systems. Proposals in response to this FOA need to?support and ensure a more secure, resilient, and reliable energy delivery system?through targeted improvements to one or more of the following energy sector?processes:? (1.) Electricity generation, transmission, or distribution (including renewables, energy management systems, and electric vehicles, etc.), and (2.) Oil and natural gas production, refining, storage or distribution.?
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Community Geothermal Heating and Cooling Design and?Deployment Funding Announcement
- Full Application?Due Date: October 11, 2022, 4pm CDT
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DE-FOA-0002632;?CFDA Number: 81.087
The objective of this?funding opportunity, issued by DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable?Energy (EERE) Geothermal Technologies Office, is to support the formation of U.S. community?coalitions that will develop, design, and install community geothermal heating?and cooling systems that supply at least 25% of the overall community heating or?heating and cooling demand in communities where current fuel use to heat or?heat and cool homes and/or businesses results in increased greenhouse gas?emissions.?
A Webinar will be held August 22th from 1-2pm CDT.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ???Register
Q&A and information on the Teaming Partners list being assembled by DOE, and the recording and slides from a July 26th webinar, can be found under the FOA number on fedconnect.gov; the FOA itself is linked under FOA number above.
--Open Requests for Information (RFI):?
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Request for Information: Barriers and Pathways to?Integrating Onsite Clean Energy Technologies in the Industrial Sector
The Advanced Manufacturing Office within the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is seeking information to better understand the barriers to deploying onsite clean energy and storage technologies at industrial facilities and pathways to accelerated adoption of these technologies. Information is sought regarding the current state of knowledge and uptake of these technologies by industrial energy users, opportunities and barriers for technology integration at industrial facilities, existing technical assistance and resources available for technology evaluation and deployment, and pathways to accelerate the adoption of onsite clean energy technologies.
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