The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is issuing, on behalf of the Water Power Technlogies Office (WPTO), this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) titled “Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Section 40334: Pumped Storage Hydropower Wind and Solar Integration and System Reliability Initiative.
Donor Name: Golden Field Office
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/15/2022
Size of the Grant: $10,000,000
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
Through this FOA, DOE will invest $10 million to carry out project design, transmission studies, power market assessments, and permitting for a pumped storage hydropower (PSH) project to facilitate the long-duration storage of intermittent renewable electricity. Eligibility for this FOA is limited to projects that have received a FERC preliminary permit, and are working toward licensing a PSH project with at least 1000 MW capacity that can participate in multiple markets and store intermittent renewable energy generated on tribal lands.
The mission of the Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) is to enable research, development, and testing of new technologies to advance marine energy as well as next-generation hydropower and pumped storage systems for a flexible, reliable grid. Given the rapid evolution of the power system in recent years, WPTO has increasingly focused on the evolving role of hydropower and new types of value it can provide. As part of its Hydropower Program, in April 2019, WPTO launched the HydroWIRES Initiative, 10 a new initiative to understand, enable, and improve hydropower and pumped storage hydropower’s (PSH) contributions to reliability, resilience, and integration. HydroWIRES achieves these goals through industry- and National Laboratory-led modeling, analysis, technical assistance, and technology research and development (R&D) for the benefit of the broader community. HydroWIRES includes all of WPTO’s efforts to support PSH, including development of methods for valuation of PSH projects, studies to understand the evolving role of PSH in the power system, and R&D for novel PSH technology concepts that can overcome barriers to deployment.
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $10,000,000
- Award Floor: $2,000,000
- DOE anticipates making awards that will run from 12 up to 60 months in length, comprised of one or more budget periods
Eligibility Criteria
- Special district governments
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- State governments
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- County governments
- Private institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- City or township governments.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
