EXTERNAL FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
New Entries and Updates on January 12, 2024
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Wind, Solar, Bioenergy, and Innovation
SOLVE IT Prize Seeks Community-Based Competitors
The U.S. Department of Energy’s SOLVE IT Prize competition is now open to competitors interested in neighborhood-, town-, or city-scale clean energy strategic planning.
Department of Energy −Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) – Notice of Intent: Clean Fuels; Products Shot: Supporting Carbon Utilization Products via Electrochemical Conversion and Refinery Retrofitting
Funding Opportunity Number: DE-FOA-0003122
Summary: This Carbon Conversion program aims to develop commercially viable products that are derived from anthropogenic carbon oxides and demonstrate significant net reductions in lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions compared to incumbent technologies, processes, and products.
Department of Energy −Fiscal Year 2024 Technology Integration (TI) Funding Opportunity Announcement
Notice Number: DE-FOA-0003249
Full Proposal Deadline: Jan 24, 2024
Summary: This FOA supports a broad technology portfolio that includes alternative fuels, workforce development and training, and other efficient advanced technologies that can reduce transportation energy costs for businesses and consumers. The program provides objective, unbiased data and real-world lessons learned to inform future research needs and support local decision making. It also includes projects to disseminate data, information, and insight, as well as online tools and technology assistance to cities and regions working to implement alternative fuels and energy efficient mobility technologies and systems.
Department of Energy −Request for Information for Carbon Basin Assessment and Storage Evaluation (CarbonBASE)
Funding Opportunity Number: DE-FOA-0003262
Full Proposal Deadline: February 2, 2024
Summary:
Requests should focus on a goal or capability that significantly adds to the current U.S. capacity to support advanced reactor R&D, education, and workforce development. Applicants must demonstrate the connection among requested pieces of equipment or other project elements toward a key objective or outcome. Applications made of several uncorrelated equipment requests are not of interest.
Community Energy Innovation Prize
Grant ID:
Deadline: 2/2/2024
Award:
Description:
Ready to bring equitable clean energy and energy efficiency initiatives to your community? Join the $7.49 million Community Energy Innovation Prize and strategize ways to provide support, build trust, and strengthen relationships and partnerships with underserved communities while advancing the clean energy transition. The prize is now open to community-based organizations, the private sector, nonfederal government entities, and collegiate teams!
DoD Defense University Research Instrumentation Program
Deadline: Full proposals will be accepted until Friday, February 16, 2024
Summary: Funds can be used for the acquisition of major equipment to augment current or develop new research capabilities in support of DoD-relevant research. Proposals may request $50,000 to $3,000,000. DURIP proposals submitted to ONR should facilitate research in an area of interest to ONR, as described in the NOFO Science and Technology section. Potential proposers may contact the appropriate program managers, listed with each area of interest, to explore possible mutual interests before submitting proposals.
Environmental System Science (ESS)
Grant ID: DE-FOA-0003196
Deadline for Pre Applications: 11/29/2023
Deadlines for Applications: 2/29/2024
Award: $8,000,000
Description:
The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program hereby announces its interest in receiving applications for research in Environmental System Science (ESS). The goal of the ESS program in BER is to advance an integrated, robust, and scale-aware predictive understanding of terrestrial systems and their interdependent microbial, biogeochemical, ecological, hydrological, and physical processes.
Department of Energy: Buildings Energy Efficiency Frontiers & Innovation Technologies (BENEFIT)
Grant ID: DE-FOA-0003158
Full Proposal Deadline: 3/5/2024
Description:
This funding opportunity will invest up to $30 million across nine topic areas to research, develop, and validate technologies with the potential to significantly advance building decarbonization.
Faculty Small Grant Program Spring 2024 Cycle
Deadline: 11:59pm (MST) on Tuesday, March 12th, 2024
Link to Apply: https://utah.infoready4.com/#freeformCompetitionDetail/1926775
Summary: The Faculty Small Grant Program (FSGP) provides grants of up to $10,000 over one year to support scholarly publications and creative research. The VPR Office defines scholarly activity as a work of scholarship that is peer reviewed and publicly disseminated. Examples of scholarly activity should demonstrate the discovery and/or integration of new knowledge, technologies, methods, or materials. The VPR defines creative activity as original contributions to an investigator’s field of study that are produced through writing, creating, composing, designing, recording, performing, curating, etc.*
*Listed definitions of scholarly and creative research work are not meant to be comprehensive. Questions about whether your research idea would qualify for the FSGP should be directed to vprgrants@utah.edu.
Sponsoring Office/Unit: Office of the Vice President for Research
Contact Information: please contact vprgrants@utah.edu with any questions.
Notice of Intent to issue a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) entitled "Onsite Energy Technical Assistance Partnerships"
Grant ID: DE-FOA-0002944
Deadline: 3/23/2024
Award: $8,000,000
Climate Pollution Reduction Grants Program: Implementation Grants General Competition
Grant ID: EPA-R-OAR-CPRGI-23-07
Deadline: 4/1/2024
Award: Approximately $4.3 Billion funding available
Nuclear Data Interagency Working Group (NDIAWG) Program
Announcement Number: DE-FOA-0003238
Programs: Nuclear Physics
Fiscal Year: 2024
Close Date: Thursday, April 4, 2024
Notes: Submission Deadline for Letters of Intent: February 5, 2024 at 11:59 PM, Eastern Time
Transmission Siting and Economic Development Program Department of Energy
Grant ID: DE-FOA-0003101
Deadline: 4/5/2024
Award: $50,000,000
Department of Commerce −FY 2023 Distressed Area Recompete Pilot Program Phase 2
Notice Number:EDA-RECOMPETEPHASE2-2023
Full Proposal Deadline: April 25, 2024
Summary: Through this NOFO, EDA expects to award implementation funds to 4-8 Finalists, which will include selecting approximately 3-8 projects within each. Implementation grants can support a wide range of non-construction and construction activities that aim to increase regional capacity across the following four broad categories: workforce development; business and entrepreneur development; infrastructure; and additional planning, predevelopment, or technical assistance.
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.
NIOSH Education and Research Centers
Grant ID: RFA-OH-22-001
Action: Application Feb 24, 2025
Award: $1,800,000
Accelerating Advanced Digital Construction Management Systems Program
Grant ID: FTA-2023-012-TRI-ADCMS
Action: Application Feb 12, 2024
Award: $5,000,000
U.S. Department of Energy Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnership (GRIP)
Grant ID: To be announced
Deadline: Concept Papers due on January 12, 2024
Award: $500,000,000
The State Component of the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program
Grant ID: G24AS00043
Action: Application Jan 9, 2024
Award: $800,000
National Geological & Geophysical Data Preservation Program
Grant ID: G24AS00014
Action: Application Dec 6, 2023
Award: $7,000,000
Consumer Electronics Battery Recycling, Reprocessing, and Battery Collection
Grant ID: DE-FOA-0002897
Action: Application Nov 29, 2023
Award: $10,000,000
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law: Consumer Electronics Battery Recycling, Reprocessing, and Battery Collection
Grant ID: DE-FOA-0002897
Deadline: 11/29/2023
Award: $10,000,000
Description:
This program will provide funding to support the recycling of consumer electronics batteries and battery-containing devices to help build a robust domestic critical material supply chain for EV batteries in the United States. The funding will accomplish this by: 1) Increase participation by consumers in recycling programs; 2) Improve the economics of consumer battery recycling to create a market for recycling, including battery recycling research, development, and demonstration activities to create innovative and practical approaches to increase the reuse and recycling of batteries; and 3) Increase the number of these programs, including state and local programs to assist in the establishment or enhancement of state consumer electronics battery collection, recycling, and reprocessing programs and to establish collection points at retailers.
FY24 Desalination and Water Purification Research Program: Research Projects
Grant ID: R24AS00016
Action: Application Nov 15, 2023
Award: $800,000
Silicon Solar Manufacturing, and Dual-use Photovoltaics Incubator
Grant ID: DE-FOA-0003057
Action: Application Nov 14, 2023
Award: $10,000,000
BIL 41003c-Critical Material Innovation, Efficiency, and Alternatives
Grant ID: DE-FOA-0003105
Action: Application Nov 10, 2023
Award: $30,000,000
SAF Grand Challenge: Building Supply Chain
Grant ID: DE-FOA-0002897
Action: RFI Nov 2, 2023
Award: To Be Announced
Advanced Processing of Critical Minerals and Materials
Grant ID: DE-FOA-0002619
Action: Application Oct 20, 2023
Award: $30,000,000
Advancing U.S. Thin-Film Solar Photovoltaics
Grant ID: DE-FOA-0003058
Deadline: 12/12/2023
Award: $10,000,000
Description:
On September 12, 2023, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) released the Advancing U.S. Thin-Film Solar Photovoltaics funding opportunity, which will award $36 million for research, development, and demonstration projects on two major thin-film photovoltaic (PV) technologies. The projects resulting from this funding opportunity will support an equitable transition to a decarbonized electricity system by 2035 and facilitate secure, robust, and reliable integration of solar electricity into the nation’s energy grid.
Regional Initiative for Technical Assistance Partnerships (RITAP) to Advance Basin-Scale Carbon Transport and Storage
Grant ID: DE-FOA-0003013
Action: Notice of Intent Oct 17, 2023
Award: To Be Announced
Distributed Energy Systems Demonstrations Program
Grant ID: DE-FOA-0003139
Deadline: 11/16/2023
Award: $25,000,000
Description:
The Distributed Energy Systems (DES) Demonstrations Program seeks to help the U.S. develop more reliable, resilient, and cost-effective energy systems to better support our rapidly changing electric grid and the growth of electric vehicles, energy storage, and the electrification of buildings and industry.
Fossil Energy Based Production, Storage, Transport and Utilization of Hydrogen Approaching Net-Zero or Net-Negative Carbon Emissions
Grant ID: DE-FOA-0002400
Deadline: 11/14/2023
Award: $7,000,000
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law: Silicon Solar Manufacturing and Dual-use Photovoltaics Incubator
Grant ID: DE-FOA-0003057
Deadline: 11/14/2023
Award: $10,000,000
Description:
On July 6, 2023, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) announced the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Silicon Solar Manufacturing and Dual-use Photovoltaics Incubator funding opportunity, which will award $45 million for projects to enable continued solar cost reductions while developing next-generation solar technologies and boosting American solar manufacturing.
Innovative Designs for high-performance low-cost HVDC converters (IDEAL HVDC)
Grant ID: DE-FOA-0003141
Deadline: 11/14/2023
Award: $3,300,000
Description:
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO) and the Office of Electricity (OE) released a $10 million funding opportunity announcement (FOA) to fund research to drive innovation and reduce costs of high-voltage direct current (HVDC) voltage source converter (VSC) transmission systems. HVDC transmission systems are more efficient than traditional alternating current (AC) transmission systems for transmitting electricity over long distances while minimizing power losses. Many renewable resources are in remote locations on land, or planned far from shore (e.g. offshore wind), and HVDC transmission provides a cost-effective solution for renewable integration onto the grid. This FOA will enable long distance transmission for offshore wind energy and support the Floating Offshore Wind Shot.
Installation Noise Reduction and Reliable Moorings for Offshore Wind and Marine Energy
Grant ID: DE-FOA-0003121
Deadline: 11/9/2023
Award: $5,000,000
Description:
This FOA supports accelerated and responsible development of offshore renewable energy by funding research to reduce risk and improve environmental compatibility of deployments in all regions of U.S. waters including the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Great Lakes, and the Gulf of Mexico. This includes research into the integrity and monitoring of mooring lines for floating offshore wind energy systems and marine energy converters, as well as reducing or avoiding noise generation and propagation during the installation of fixed-bottom offshore wind foundations.
Solar-thermal Fuels and Thermal Energy Storage via Concentrated Solar-Thermal Energy
Grant ID: DE-FOA-0003080
Deadline: 11/3/2023
Award: $10,000,000
Description:
On September 21, 2023, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) announced the FY23 Solar-thermal Fuels and Thermal Energy Storage Via Concentrated Solar-thermal Energy funding opportunity (FOA). This FOA will award up to $30 million for research, development, and demonstration projects in thermochemical storage via solar fuel production and local thermal energy storage (TES) for dispatchable energy.
Renewable Energy Siting through Technical Engagement and Planning (R-STEP) Program
Grant ID: www.energywerx.org
Deadline: 11/3/2023
Award: $2,000,000
Description:
On September 12, 2023, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) opened submissions for a $10 million funding and technical assistance program that supports the creation of new, or the expansion of existing, state-based programs or initiatives that improve renewable energy siting processes at the state and local levels. DOE anticipates awarding approximately five to seven state-based collaboratives up to $2 million each. Collaboratives will also benefit from tailored technical assistance and peer-learning opportunities.
Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Grand Challenge: Building Supply Chains
Grant ID: DE-FOA-0003157
Deadline: 11/2/2023
Award: To be announced
Description:
The Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Grand Challenge set forth long-term goals to reduce cost, enhance sustainability, and expand domestic production of sustainable aviation fuel. The SAF Grand Challenge Roadmap outlines a whole-of-government approach, with coordinated policies and specific activities, that should be undertaken by federal agencies to support achievement of both the 2030 and 2050 SAF Grand Challenge goals.
Clean Hydrogen Demand-side Initiative
Grant ID: DE-FOA-0003187
Deadline: 11/2/2023
Award: $8,000,000
Description:
The Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs Program (H2Hubs) includes up to $7 billion to establish six to 10 regional clean hydrogen hubs across America. Part of a larger $8 billion hydrogen hub program funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the H2Hubs will form the foundation of a national clean hydrogen network that will contribute substantially to decarbonizing multiple sectors of the economy, like heavy industries (steel and cement production) and heavy-duty transportation.
