The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is issuing this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) to invest in innovative research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) projects that accelerate the large-scale development and deployment of renewable energy to support an equitable transition to a decarbonized electricity system by 2035 and net-zero emissions economy by 2050.
Donor Name: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 08/01/2022
Grant Size: $5,000,000
Grant Duration: 36 months
Details:
The goal of this funding opportunity is to develop the tools and processes to help a broad set of stakeholders including utilities, local governments, and community-based organizations; understand the implications and participate in the development of locally-based energy generation in their community. To achieve this goal, applicants will assimilate data from a variety of sources into novel tools, “dashboards,” or other applications that will assess the impacts and tradeoffs, including potential benefits and challenges of locally-based energy generation. These tools should be accessible and easy-to-use to a wide array of stakeholders that are not necessarily electric power system experts. Achievement of this goal should accelerate deployment of renewable energy towards an equitable de-carbonized grid, and it will come through pursuit of several concurrent objectives in successful system design.
As utilities, local governments, and community-based organizations consider increasing the use of more local, or placed-based, generation to support their community, there are a number of attributes of the electric power system that must be considered. These include the following:
- Resilient: The ability to recover quickly from any situation or power outage
- Reliable: Improved power quality and fewer power outages
- Secure: Increased protection to their critical infrastructure
- Affordable: As measured by a reduction in electricity generation and delivery costs
- Flexible: Responds to the variability and uncertainty of conditions across a range of timescales, including a range of energy futures
- Environmentally Sustainable: Reduces environmental impact of energy-related activities
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $10,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $5,000,000
- Award Floor: $2,000,000
- EERE anticipates making awards that will run from 12 to 36 months in length
Eligibility Criteria
- Individuals
- U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents are eligible to apply for funding as a prime recipient or subrecipient.
- Domestic Entities
- For-profit entities, educational institutions, and nonprofits that are incorporated (or otherwise formed) under the laws of a particular state or territory of the United States and have a physical location for business operations in the United States are eligible to apply for funding as a prime recipient or subrecipient.
- Nonprofit organizations described in section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 that engaged in lobbying activities after December 31, 1995 are not eligible to apply for funding.
- State, local, and tribal government entities are eligible to apply for funding as a prime recipient or subrecipient.
- DOE/NNSA FFRDCs are eligible to apply for funding as a subrecipient but are not eligible to apply as a prime recipient.
- Non-DOE/NNSA FFRDCs are eligible to apply for funding as a subrecipient but are not eligible to apply as a prime recipient.
- Federal agencies and instrumentalities (other than DOE) are eligible to apply for funding as a subrecipient but are not eligible to apply as a prime recipient.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
