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DOE: Notice of Intent (NOI) “Offshore Wind National and Regional Research and Development.
Grant ID: DE-FOA-0003355
Close Date: 09/30/2024
Award: $10,000,000
Description:
The mission of the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) is to minimize the environmental impacts of fossil fuels while working towards net-zero emissions. FECM’s programs use research, development, demonstration, and deployment approaches to advance technologies to reduce carbon emissions and other environmental impacts of fossil fuel production and use, particularly the hardest-to-decarbonize applications in the electricity and industrial sectors. Priority areas of technology work include point-source carbon capture, hydrogen with carbon management, methane emissions reduction, critical mineral production, and carbon dioxide removal to address the accumulated CO2 emissions in the atmosphere. FECM recognizes that global decarbonization through carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is essential to meeting climate goals and works to engage with international colleagues to leverage expertise in these areas. FECM is also committed to improving the conditions of communities impacted by the legacy of fossil fuel use and to supporting a healthy economic transition that accelerates the growth of good-paying jobs.
DOE: Notice of Intent (NOI) “Offshore Wind National and Regional Research and Development."
Grant ID: DE-FOA-0003345
Full Proposal Deadline: 09/19/2024
Description:
This notice of intent (NOI) is issued so that interested parties are aware of EERE’s intention to issue this FOA in the near term. All the information contained in this NOI is subject to change. EERE will not respond to questions concerning this NOI. Once the FOA has been released, EERE will provide an avenue for potential applicants to submit questions.
DOE: Concentrating Solar Flux to Heat & Power
Grant ID: DE-FOA-0003269
Close Date: 08/08/2024
Award: $10,000,000
Description:
This FOA solicits proposals for RD&D associated with Scalable Concentrating Solar Collectors, Scalable Supercritical Carbon Dioxide (sCO2) and Scalable Concentrating Solar-thermal Receivers and Reactors. The three technologies will support the government-wide approach to the climate crisis by driving the innovation that can lead to the deployment of clean energy technologies, which are critical for climate protection.
DDOE: FY 2024 Reaching a New Energy Sciences Workforce (RENEW)
Grant ID: DE-FOA-0003280
Full Proposal Deadline: 07/23/2024
Award: $10.000.000
Description:
Reaching a New Energy Sciences Workforce (RENEW) aims to build foundations for Office of Science (SC) research through traineeships at academic institutions that have been historically underrepresented in the SC portfolio. RENEW leverages SC’s unique national laboratories, user facilities, and other research infrastructure to provide training opportunities for students and postdoctoral researchers from these institutions. The hands-on experiences gained through RENEW will open new career avenues for trainees, forming a nucleus for a future pool of talented young scientists, engineers, and technicians with the critical skills and expertise needed for the full breadth of SC research activities. RENEW supports traineeships for students and postdoctoral researchers from non-R1 Emerging Research Institutions (ERIs) and non-R1 Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) in areas relevant to SC programs. SC seeks applications to develop traineeships for participants from these institutions that involve conducting research in partnership with a DOE-affiliated institution, including DOE National Laboratories, SC user facilities, Bioenergy Research Centers, or DOE Isotope Program Production Sites.
DOE (NOI) Smart Manufacturing Technologies for Material and Process Innovation Funding Opportunity Announcement
Grant ID: DE-FOA-0003328
Full Proposal Deadline: 06/28/2024
Description:
The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) intends to issue, on behalf of the Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO), a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) entitled “Smart Manufacturing Technologies for Material and Process Innovation.” This FOA will support the research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) of smart manufacturing technologies that can contribute to a resilient, responsive, leading-edge, and efficient manufacturing sector that delivers the technologies needed for the nation’s clean energy transition. Smart manufacturing can help the manufacturing community reduce manufacturing costs and accelerate time-to-market by illuminating the connection between in-process manufacturing data and ultimate performance characteristics of final products. /p>
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DOE: Regional Scale Collaboration to Facilitate a Domestic Critical Minerals Future: Carbon Ore, Rare Earth, and Critical Minerals (CORE-CM) Initiative
Grant ID: DE-FOA-0003077
Full Proposal Deadline: 06/24/2024
Award: $7.500.000
Description:
The planned Research and Development will provide a regional scale understanding of critical minerals prospectivity and provides insight into the potential materials that may be sourced from domestic secondary and unconventional feedstocks across the United States. The work will contribute to the development of a framework that addresses economic and supply chain barriers, leads to pilot scale demos, and broaden scope to include advanced carbon or critical mineral bearing material products.
Department of Commerce: Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program for CHIPS for America – CHIPS Metrology
Grant ID: 2024-SBIR-CHIPS-01
Deadline: 06/14/2024
Award: $12.000.000
Description:
The CHIPS for America program anticipates up to $54M in funding across multiple topics on research projects for critically needed measurement services, tools, and instrumentation; innovative manufacturing metrologies; novel assurance and provenance technologies and advanced metrology R&D testbeds to help secure U.S. leadership in the global semiconductor industry.
DOE: Renewable Energy Siting through Technical Engagement and Planning (R-STEP) program (Round 2)
Due Date: 06/13/2024
Award: $12.000.000
Description:
This opportunity will award up to $12 million—funded through the Inflation Reduction Act—to support the creation or expansion of state-based programs or initiatives that improve renewable energy siting processes at the state and local levels.
Regional Resource Hubs for Purpose-Grown Energy Crops
Grant ID: DE-FOA-0003209
Closing Date: 06/13/2024
Award: $10.000.000
Description:
Significant RD&D is required to reach the goal of affordable, low-carbon intensity transportation fuels and chemical products. The RD&D activities to be funded under this FOA will support the government-wide approach to addressing the climate crisis by driving innovation and deployment of clean energy technologies. The 2024 Regional Resource Hubs for Purpose-Grown Energy Crops FOA supports the focus of the BETO Renewable Carbon Resources Program in developing strategies and supporting technology development to reduce the cost, improve the quality, increase the quantity, and maximize the environmental benefits of using renewable carbon resources. The FOA addresses enabling the mobilization of low carbon intensity purpose-grown energy crops across varied agronomic and geographic landscapes through the generation of data and research findings. The FOA seeks applications that will support resource mobilization, including improvements to quality, yield, cost, mechanization of propagation/planting systems, pest management, carbon intensity reduction, ecosystem services, and more from the cultivation of purpose-grown energy crops. Data generated over the course of four to ten years will be used to improve modeling projections, adapt crops and/or crop management strategies to address varying climates, understand variations in soil and belowground carbon storage, quantify ecosystem services, and reduce the carbon intensity for specified purpose-grown energy crop systems.
DOE: Energy- and Emissions-Intensive Industries Funding Opportunity
Grant ID: DE-FOA-0003219
Full Application Deadline: 06/11/2024
Award: $83.000.000
Description:
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) focuses on applied research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) for the highest GHG-emitting industrial subsectors, specifically: chemicals and fuels; iron and steel; food and beverage; building and infrastructure materials (including cement and concrete, asphalt pavements, and glass); and forest products.
DOE: Notice of Intent to Issue Funding Opportunity Announcement entitled SuperTruck Charge
Grant ID: DE-FOA-0003352
Full Proposal Deadline: 05/31/2024
Description:
This Notice of Intent to Issue is for informational purposes only; the Department of Energy is not seeking comments on the information in this notice and applications are not being accepted at this time. This anticipated FOA will advance goals to decarbonize transportation and seek research, development, demonstration, and deployment of concepts for delivering high power charging, load management, and delivery of grid services that alleviate grid capacity challenges at a large-scale charging installation for medium duty and heavy-duty (MD/HD) trucks through optimal design of charging infrastructure and operations, critical to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050
Department of Energy (IRA) Funding for Advanced Biofuels
Grant ID: DE-FOA-0003178
Full Proposal Deadline: 05/24/2024
Award: $9,400,000
Description:
The FOA’s topic areas are of mutual interest for both the EPA’s priority in the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program and DOE BETO’s priority in the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge as well as SDI’s priority in supporting four demonstration-scale integrated biorefineries by 2030. For both topic areas, the application must discuss how the proposed technology would meet the RFS definition of advanced biofuel, which means using allowable feedstocks, producing allowable fuel types, and with lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions reductions of at least 50% compared to petroleum base baseline.
DOE Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) – Joint Office of Energy and Transportation: Communities Taking Charge Accelerator, Fiscal Year 2024 Funding Opportunity Announcement
Grant ID: DE-FOA-0003214
Concept Paper Deadline: 05/20/2024
Full Proposal Deadline: 06/16/2024
Award: $4,000,000
Description:
Awards made under this FOA will be funded, in whole or in part, with funds appropriated by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, more commonly known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The Communities Taking Charge Accelerator FOA will seek to advance the mission and vision of the Joint Office by addressing discrete challenges to making it possible for everyone to ride and drive electric. This FOA will make strategic investments at the local level that address key barriers to expanding access to electrified mobility options for individuals without home charging; accelerating the transition to electrified micro, light, and medium duty fleets; and maturing the implementation of managed charging systems to mitigate impacts and optimize usage of the grid.
DOE Request for Information on Domestic Manufacturing Conversion Grants for Electrified Vehicles: State Partnerships for Small- and Medium-Sized Manufacturers (SMMs)
Grant ID: DE-FOA-0003360
Full Proposal Deadline: 05/30/2024
Description:
This is a Request for Information (RFI) issued by DOE’s Manufacturing & Energy Supply Chains Office (MESC). This RFI seeks public input to help inform DOE’s implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act Automotive Conversion Program. The program will support automotive manufacturing domestic facility conversion for electrified vehicles as a continuation of Funding Opportunity Announcement DE-FOA-0003106. This program will focus on small- and medium-sized manufacturers via state-federal partnerships. This RFI contains 24 questions in the Purpose section. Respondents are not required to answer all questions.
DOE (RFI)-Future Innovation needs for Responsible Mining of Critical Minerals (FIRM-CM)
Grant ID: DE-FOA-0003356
RFI Submission Deadline: 05/14/2024
Description:
This RFI is not accepting applications for financial assistance. The purpose of this RFI is solely to solicit input for ARPA-E consideration to inform the possible formulation of future programs. The purpose of this Request for Information (RFI) is to solicit input for potential future ARPA-E research programs focused on innovative technologies and approaches for resource exploration, discovery, appraisal, mining, and processing of critical minerals
DOE: MACRO - Mixed Algae Conversion Research Opportunity
Grant ID: DE-FOA-0003274
Concept Paper Deadline: 05/10/2024
Full Proposal Deadline: 06/27/2024
Award: $18,800,000
Description:
DOE is committed to pushing the frontiers of science and engineering, catalyzing clean energy jobs through research, development, demonstration, and deployment, and ensuring environmental justice and inclusion of underserved communities. This FOA is funded by two DOE offices: the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (EERE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) and the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management’s (FECM) Carbon Conversion Program. BETO’s primary focus is on developing technologies that convert domestic biomass and/or waste resources to affordable biofuels and bioproducts that significantly reduce carbon emissions on a life-cycle basis as compared to equivalent petroleum-based products. The priority of FECM’s Carbon Conversion Program is to develop multiple pathways by which captured and concentrated carbon dioxide (CO2) is converted into economically viable and environmentally sustainable products.
DOE: i2X Innovative Queue Management Solutions (iQMS) for Clean Energy Interconnection and Energization
Grant ID: DE-FOA-0003280
Full Proposal Deadline: 05/09/2024
Award: up to $6,500,000
Description:
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Interconnection Innovation e-Xchange (i2X) program and Joint Office of Energy and Transportation, through a partnership intermediary agreement (PIA) with ENERGYWERX, announced their intent to fund the Innovative Queue Management Solutions (iQMS) for Clean Energy Interconnection and Energization program.
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FY 2024 Reaching a New Energy Sciences Workforce (RENEW)
Grant ID: DE-FOA-0003280
Full Proposal Deadline: 07/23/2024
Award: $100,000 - $2,250,000
Description:
Reaching a New Energy Sciences Workforce (RENEW) aims to build foundations for Office of Science (SC) research through traineeships at academic institutions that have been historically underrepresented in the SC portfolio. RENEW leverages SC’s unique national laboratories, user facilities, and other research infrastructure to provide training opportunities for students and postdoctoral researchers from these institutions. The hands-on experiences gained through RENEW will open new career avenues for trainees, forming a nucleus for a future pool of talented young scientists, engineers, and technicians with the critical skills and expertise needed for the full breadth of SC research activities. RENEW supports traineeships for students and postdoctoral researchers from non-R1 Emerging Research Institutions (ERIs) and non-R1 Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) in areas relevant to SC programs. SC seeks applications to develop traineeships for participants from these institutions that involve conducting research in partnership with a DOE-affiliated institution, including DOE National Laboratories, SC user facilities, Bioenergy Research Centers, or DOE Isotope Program Production Sites.
American-Made Wind Turbine Materials Recycling Prize - Phase 2
Grant ID:
Deadline: 7/12/2024
Award: $5,100,000
Description:
Wind energy deployment in the United States is projected to see significant growth to meet the nation’s decarbonization goals by 2050. As wind turbine manufacturing accelerates, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proactively considering the life cycle of wind turbines, specifically after they are eventually decommissioned.
Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office (IEDO) Fiscal Year 2024 Cross-Sector Technologies FOA
Grant ID: DE-FOA-0003206
Action: March 20, 2024
Details: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is issued by the Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office (IEDO) to advance transformational cross-sector technologies and innovations needed to reduce industrial energy use and GHG emissions through high-impact applied research, development, and pilot-scale technology validation and demonstration projects.
