Batteries and Energy Storage
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Clean Energy Demonstration Program on Current and Former Mine Land
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The Department of Energy has issued a Request for Information to inform its award-making process to fund projects to demonstrate the technical and economic viability of carrying out clean energy projects on current and former mine land. Up to five 5 clean energy projects are to be carried out in geographically diverse regions, at least 2 of which shall be solar projects. The Department expects to issue a formal funding announcement in 2023. An estimated $500 million is available for this program.
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Solar, Nuclear, Hydrogen, Grid Modernization, CCUS, Energy Storage
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Clean Energy Vehicle, Charging Deployment, and Related Technologies Funding Announcement
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The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, on behalf of the Vehicle Technologies Office, will fund RD&D activities for a range of innovative technologies and solutions for on-road and off-road vehicles to develop and accelerate the charging infrastructure and reduction of vehicle GHG emissions. The focus will include projects that advance electric drive technologies using less rare-earth materials, will focus on cost-effective deployment of EV charging infrastructure for those without easy home charging, mobility options for underserved communities, battery and electrification technologies, materials technologies, energy-efficient commercial off-road vehicle technologies, medium/heavy duty vehicle corridor charging, and advanced engine and fuel technologies to improve fuel efficiency and reduce GHG emissions. DOE expects to make approximately $95.7 million available in funding for the full program, with individual awards ranging from $300k to $7.5 million. Interested applicants should view the Teaming List for interested entities, and immediately begin working on a concept paper, which is required to maintain eligibility. Concept papers are due August 25, 2022 at 5pm ET. Full applications are due November 10, 2022, and DOE expects to make selection decisions around March 2023.
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Batteries, Hydrogen, Biofuels, EV Charging, Electric Vehicles, Grid Modernization, CCUS, Energy Storage
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General Department of Energy R&D Funding (Multiple Subject Areas)
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The Department of Energy's Office of Science has an annual open solicitation that covers all research areas across the Office of Science and is open throughout the Fiscal Year. The current solicitation is open until September 30, 2022, or until it is succeeded with a subsequent issuance. Under this solicitation, the Office of Science will fund projects that are focused in the following program areas: Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Basic Energy Sciences, Biological and Environmental Research, Fusion Energy Sciences, High Energy Physics, Nuclear Physics, Isotope R&D and Production, and Accelerator R&D and Production. All entities are eligible to apply, however, these funds are targeted towards basic science and early-stage research. Award amounts can reach up to approximately $5 million.
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Solar, Nuclear, Hydrogen, Biofuels, CCUS, Energy Storage, Conservation/Fish & Wildlife Habitat Restoration
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Hydroelectric Incentive Program
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The Department of Energy's Grid Deployment Office is requesting information and feedback from stakeholders on issues related to the development of hydroelectric incentive programs authorized under sections 243 and 247 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Pub. L. 109-58) (EPAct 2005), as amended by sections 40332 and 40333 of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Specifically, the RFI seeks feedback on capital improvements, improving grid resiliency, dam safety, and environmental mitigation efforts. This RFI may result in a future award notification. DOE has a combined $753.6 million for these programs. Responses are due September 6, 2022.
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Hydroelectric, Energy Storage, Conservation/Fish & Wildlife Habitat Restoration
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Industrial Decarbonization RD&D Funding
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The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, on behalf of the Advanced Manufacturing Office, will issue a FOA around August 2022 to fund high-impact, applied research and development and prototype or pilot-scale demonstration projects to expedite the adoption of transformational industrial technology necessary to reduce energy usage and GHG emissions from high GHG-emitting industrial subsectors. This FOA will include technologies that focus on decarbonizing chemicals (advanced separations and advanced reactors, for example), decarbonizing iron and steel (ire-based or scrap-based iron and steelmaking operations, for example), decarbonizing food and beverage products, decarbonizing cement and concrete (novel cement formulations and process routes, utilization of low carbon fuels, and carbon capture technologies, for example), decarbonizing paper and forest products (wood drying technologies, for example), and cross-sector technologies such as low temperature waste heat to power and industrial heat pump technologies. Total award amount and individualized award amount details are forthcoming in the FOA.
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Biofuels, Industrial Decarbonization Technologies, Wastewater, CCUS, Energy Storage
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Loan Programs Office Title 17 Innovative Clean Energy Loan Guarantees
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The Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office has posted a Innovative Clean Energy Solicitation under Title 17 to issue loan guarantees for projects that “avoid, reduce, utilize, or sequester air pollutants or anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases” and “employ new or significantly improved technologies as compared to commercial technologies in service in the United States.” These applications are accepted on a rolling basis until the solicitation period ends. This solicitation has approximately $4.5 billion in loan guarantee authority, and an additional amount of loan guarantee authority will be authorized under the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. LPO has a plethora of training resources on how to apply for these funds and offers no-cost pre-application solicitations.
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Solar, Batteries, Hydrogen, Wind, EV Charging, Electric Vehicles, Transmission, CCUS, Energy Storage
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Loan Programs Office Tribal Direct Loans and Loan Guarantees
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The Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office has issued a solicitation under its Tribal Loan Guarantee authority (TELGP) to issue direct loans and loan guarantees for certain eligible projects for energy development on Native lands, including electricity generation, transmission, and distribution facilities, energy storage, energy resource extraction, energy transportation facilities, heating and cooling facilities, cogeneration facilities, and distributed energy project portfolios. Further, DOE will prioritize projects that decrease energy burden, decrease environmental exposure and burdens, increase access to low-cost capital, increase clean energy job development and training, increase minority-owned or disadvantaged business enterprises, and increase energy resilience, among other environmental justice factors. These applications are accepted on a rolling basis until the solicitation period ends. This solicitation has approximately $2 billion in loan guarantee authority, with further funding available to help defray application costs. LPO has a plethora of training resources on how to apply for these funds and offers no-cost pre-application solicitations. For this program, "Eligible Lenders" are those that are financial institutions, eligible Tribes, and others as defined in the solicitation that have existing relationships with eligible borrowers for an eligible project.
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Solar, Nuclear, Hydrogen, Biofuels, Wind, Transmission, Grid Modernization, CCUS, Energy Storage
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Program Upgrading Our Electric Grid and Ensuring Reliability and Resiliency
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The Department of Energy will issue $5 billion in competitive federal financial assistance to states, local governments, and Tribes to support electric sector owners and operators with projects that demonstrate innovative approaches to hardening and enhancing resilience and reliability of transmission, storage, and distribution infrastructure. Formal funding notice is expected later in 2022.
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Transmission, Grid Modernization, Energy Storage
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Pumped Storage Hydropower Wind and Solar Integration and System Reliability Initiative
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The Department of Energy's Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy has $10 million to provide financial assistance to eligible entities to carry out project design, transmission studies, power market assessments, and permitting for a pumped storage hydropower project to facilitate the long-duration storage of intermittent renewable electricity. The estimated application opening date is still to be determined.
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Solar, Wind, Transmission, Grid Modernization, Energy Storage
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Rare Earth Elements Demonstration Facility
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The Department of Energy's Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains has $140 million at a 50 percent cost-share to provide grants to demonstrate the feasibility of a full-scale integrated rare earth element extraction and separation facility and refinery facilities. The program seeks to fund projects that (A) provide environmental benefits through use of feedstock derived from acid mine drainage, mine waste, or other deleterious material; (B) separate mixed rare earth oxides into pure oxides of each rare earth element; (C) refine rare earth oxides into rare earth metals; or (D) provide for separation of rare earth oxides and refining into rare earth metals at a single site. DOE has already collected information through a Request for Information and next milestone is to open applications for funding.
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Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs
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The Department of Energy will fund 6-10 regional clean hydrogen hubs set forth in in Section 40314 of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. With $8 billion in funding, the Hubs will create a network of hydrogen producers and related technology manufacturers, consumers, and local connective infrastructure to accelerate the use of hydrogen as a clean energy carrier. The FOA will be issued around September or October 2022, and concept papers will likely be due 6-8 weeks after this announcement, with invitations to submit a full proposal following weeks after that deadline. Interested entities will want to connect with a regional hub planning on submitting a response to the upcoming FOA, which are principally organized through multi-state or regional consortiums. Hub applicants will have approximately 4 months to apply, and each regional Hub selected by the program administrators will receive at the low-end approximately $400-500 million and at the high end approximately $1 billion in federal awards with a 50 percent non-federal cost share. Applicant cost-share must be derived from non-federal sources (except where allowed by law), and importantly, DOE Loan Programs Office financing may not be used. The Hubs will be structured in four phases, covering project planning, project development, permitting, and financing, installation, integration, and construction, and ramp-up and sustained operations.
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Nuclear, Hydrogen, Industrial Decarbonization Technologies, Wastewater, CCUS, Energy Storage
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Rural Energy for America Program
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The Department of Agriculture's Rural Energy for America (REAP) program provides guaranteed loan financing and grant funding to agricultural producers and rural small businesses for renewable energy systems or to make energy efficiency improvements. Agricultural producers may also apply for new energy efficient equipment and new system loans for agricultural production and processing. These applications are accepted on a rolling basis until the solicitation period ends. Further, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 has appropriated over $2 billion in additional funding for the REAP program, so we expect this REAP Program to continue and be potentially expanded.
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Solar, Hydrogen, Biofuels, Wind, Energy Storage
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Solar and Wind Grid Services Reliability Demonstration
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The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, on behalf of the Solar Energy Technologies Office, issued a funding opportunity announcement to award projects that address one of two topic areas: (1) full-scale demonstration projects that seamlessly integrate renewable generation with other large-scale or aggregated distributed energy resource (DER) technologies to provide ancillary services and improve reliabilirt; (2) award projects that assist in the development of understanding of how protection systems will operate under very-high IBR scenarios through advancements in modeling and simulation capabilities. This funding announcement will support demonstration projects that will last for 6-12 months at wind, solar, or hybrid power plants at least 10 MW in size. Awards will range from $2 million to $17 million, and an estimated 6-10 total awards will be made. Concept papers are due September 1, 2022 at 5pm Eastern. Full applications are due November 10, 2022 at 5pm Eastern.
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Solar, Batteries, Wind, Grid Modernization, Energy Storage
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