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  DECD2500000 Notice of Temporary Restraining Order Request for Information (RFI) Other TBD
  CD0000019 Pilot-scale Rapid Operational Validation of key Energy Infrastructure Technologies (PROVE IT) - Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Other Other 4/7/2025 05:00 PM ET 6/2/2025 05:00 PM ET
  DE-FOA-0003442 Regional Direct Air Capture Hubs - Recurring Program Notice Of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage 1/31/2025 11:59 PM ET 7/31/2025 11:59 PM ET
  DE-FOA-0003473 Point Source Carbon Capture Large-Scale Pilots, Commercial Demonstrations, and Networked Demonstration Commercialization Notice Of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage 3/1/2025 05:00 PM ET 7/1/2025 05:00 PM ET
  43625RCD0000006 Pilot-scale Rapid Operational Validation of key Energy Infrastructure Technologies (PROVE IT) - Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Notice of Intent to Publish Announcement (NOI) Other TBD
  DE-FOA-0003485 Generation III+ Small Modular Reactor Pathway to Deployment Notice Of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) Other 1/17/2025 05:00 PM ET
  DE-FOA-0003428 Energy Improvements in Rural or Remote Areas - Fiscal Year 2025 Release Notice Of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) Other 2/27/2025 05:00 PM ET 8/28/2025 05:00 PM ET
  DE-FOA-0003399 Energy Storage Pilot Demonstrations Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) Energy Storage 10/16/2024 05:00 PM ET 3/14/2025 05:00 PM ET
  TPL-0000002 Teaming Partner List for Inflation Reduction Act Technology Commercialization Fund: Collaborative Alignment for Critical Technology Industries Lab Call - Industrial Decarbonization Teaming Partner List
  DE-LC-000L004 Inflation Reduction Act Technology Commercialization Fund: Collaborative Alignment for Critical Technology Industries Lab Call - Industrial Decarbonization Lab Call (LC) Industrial and Heat 10/14/2024 03:00 PM ET
  DE-LC-000L003 FY25 OCED Analysis Lab Call Lab Call (LC) Other 6/13/2024 05:00 PM ET 8/23/2024 05:00 PM ET
  DE-FOA-0003187 Demand-side RFP for Independent Entity Other Hydrogen and Fuels 11/2/2023 06:00 PM ET
  TPL-0000001 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Energy Improvement in Rural or Remote Areas Fixed Award Grant Program Teaming Partner List

DECD2500000: Notice of Temporary Restraining Order

As required by court order, the Department of Energy is providing this Notice and Order to all employees, contractors, and grantees

Documents

  • RI_TRO_Notice (Last Updated: 2/3/2025 07:57 AM ET)

Submission Deadlines

  • Full Application Submission Deadline: TBD

CD0000019: Pilot-scale Rapid Operational Validation of key Energy Infrastructure Technologies (PROVE IT) - Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)

The Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) is issuing a solicitation titled “Pilot-scale Rapid Operational Validation of key Energy Infrastructure Technologies (PROVE IT)” under the OCED Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.

This solicitation supports the validation of existing pilot projects or subsystems in a relevant industrial environment to:

1) increase their technology readiness to the point of being able to be integrated in a large clean energy infrastructure project and

2) increase their adoption readiness level to medium/high.

OCED will prioritize technologies and application use cases that exhibit technological diversity when compared to the existing OCED portfolio of demonstration projects or that have not already been demonstrated at a scale larger than the proposed project.

The PROVE IT solicitation will be issued as a Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)-based request for proposals. OCED will award milestone-based, firm-fixed priced contracts under this solicitation.

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1/29/2025: Thank you for your interest in the informational webinar for the "Pilot-scale Rapid Operational Validation of key Energy Infrastructure Technologies (PROVE IT) / Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) - Solicitation # 89243625QCD000019". We are postponing this webinar until further notice. We will post the new date and the new registration link in OCED eXCHANGE and notify everyone registered for the webinar as soon as they become available.

Documents

  • Solicitation (Last Updated: 1/16/2025 09:27 AM ET)
  • Contract template (Last Updated: 1/15/2025 04:53 PM ET)
  • Questions and Answers (Last Updated: 1/23/2025 12:49 PM ET)

Application Forms and Templates

The following forms and templates may be used as part of the application submission. Note that these forms and templates do not necessarily constitute all the documents required for a complete application. Please refer to the 'Application and Submission Information' of the published announcement to learn more about the required application content requirements.

Pre-Application

  • Template for disclosure of foreign affiliations or relationships to foreign countries (Last Updated: 1/16/2025 09:29 AM ET)

Contact Information

Submission Deadlines

  • Pre-Application Submission Deadline: 4/7/2025 5:00 PM ET
  • Full Application Submission Deadline: 6/2/2025 5:00 PM ET

DE-FOA-0003442: Regional Direct Air Capture Hubs - Recurring Program

The goal of the Program is to provide potential applicants with flexible and comprehensive pathways to spur the development of commercial DAC facilities, including DAC facilities at mid- to large-scale along with supporting infrastructure, and expand to Regional DAC Hubs. The Program seeks to realize the potential of the diverse DAC technologies that have achieved or are approaching commercial readiness, while addressing the most critical obstacles to their adoption and scaling.

TA-1 requires a pre-application. 

TA-2 and TA-3 requires submission of a concept paper. 

Documents

  • OCED NOFO for Regional Direct Air Capture Hubs - Recurring Program (Last Updated: 12/18/2024 02:50 PM ET)
  • Submission Clarification and Q&A 1302025 (Last Updated: 1/30/2025 11:36 AM ET)

Application Forms and Templates

The following forms and templates may be used as part of the application submission. Note that these forms and templates do not necessarily constitute all the documents required for a complete application. Please refer to the 'Application and Submission Information' of the published announcement to learn more about the required application content requirements.

Full Application

  • SF424 (Last Updated: 12/17/2024 09:56 AM ET)
  • Budget Justification Workbook (Last Updated: 12/17/2024 09:59 AM ET)
  • Budget Narrative (Last Updated: 12/17/2024 10:28 AM ET)

Submission Deadlines

  • Concept Paper Submission Deadline: 1/31/2025 11:59 PM ET
  • Full Application Submission Deadline: 7/31/2025 11:59 PM ET

DE-FOA-0003473: Point Source Carbon Capture Large-Scale Pilots, Commercial Demonstrations, and Networked Demonstration Commercialization

DOE’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) is issuing this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), in collaboration with the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) and National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), for integrated carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) projects that demonstrate substantial improvements in the efficiency, effectiveness, cost, and environmental performance of carbon capture technologies for power, industrial, and other commercial applications. The overarching goal of this NOFO is to unlock a wave of follow-on investment in low-carbon power and low-carbon industrial products by increasing the capital flow to sectors where it is already occurring and by expanding the CCUS market to additional power, industrial, and commercial applications. Awards made under this NOFO will be funded with funds appropriated by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, more commonly known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL).

The BIL will invest up to $2.537 billion to fund domestic CCUS demonstration and commercial-scale projects that further the development, deployment, and commercialization of technologies to capture and geologically store CO2 emissions. In addition, the BIL has a total appropriation of $937 million for fiscal years (FY) 2022 through 2025 for large-scale pilot projects that accelerate the development, deployment, and commercialization of innovative and transformative carbon capture technologies.

This NOFO makes available up to $1,300,000,000 for approximately 10 projects at maximum Federal cost shares ranging from 50% to 80%, depending on the Topic Area and Phase of the project. The NOFO is divided into three Topic Areas based on the technology readiness level (TRL) and scope of the proposed project. DOE will select projects that seek to demonstrate the following, based on the chosen Topic Area:

  • Topic Area 1 – The technical and commercial viability of established carbon capture technologies (TRL >7) in both new applications and at commercial scale.
  • Topic Area 2 – First-of-a-kind transformational technologies (TRL 5–6) at the large pilot scale.
  • Topic Area 3 – Region-specific carbon management networks with multiple emitters to reduce offtake uncertainty and increase emitter access to storage facilities.

Documents

  • Notice of Funding Opportunity DE-FOA-0003473 (Last Updated: 12/17/2024 10:35 AM ET)
  • Q&A Log January 17, 2025 (Last Updated: 1/17/2025 03:01 PM ET)

Application Forms and Templates

The following forms and templates may be used as part of the application submission. Note that these forms and templates do not necessarily constitute all the documents required for a complete application. Please refer to the 'Application and Submission Information' of the published announcement to learn more about the required application content requirements.

Full Application

  • SF424 (Last Updated: 12/17/2024 10:13 AM ET)
  • Budget Justification Workbook (Last Updated: 12/17/2024 10:14 AM ET)
  • OCED Budget Narrative (Last Updated: 12/17/2024 10:14 AM ET)
  • Appendix A_CC FEED Guidance (Last Updated: 1/8/2025 08:53 AM ET)
  • Project Management Plan Template (Last Updated: 1/8/2025 08:54 AM ET)
  • State Point Data Template (Last Updated: 1/8/2025 08:55 AM ET)

Webinar Details

DOE will conduct one or more informational webinars during the NOFO process. It will be held after the initial NOFO release but before the due date for Concept Papers.

Attendance is not mandatory and will not positively or negatively impact the overall review of any applicant submissions. As the webinar will be open to all applicants who wish to participate, applicants should refrain from asking questions or communicating information that would reveal confidential or proprietary information specific to their project.

Contact Information

Submission Deadlines

  • Concept Paper Submission Deadline: 3/1/2025 5:00 PM ET
  • Full Application Submission Deadline: 7/1/2025 5:00 PM ET

43625RCD0000006: Pilot-scale Rapid Operational Validation of key Energy Infrastructure Technologies (PROVE IT) - Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)

For additional information about this pre-solicitation, refer to the entry in FedConnect: https://www.fedconnect.net/FedConnect/default.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fFedConnect%2f%3fdoc%3d89243625RCD000006%26agency%3dDOE&doc=89243625RCD000006&agency=DOE


The Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) intends to issue a solicitation titled “Pilot-scale Rapid Operational Validation of key Energy Infrastructure Technologies (PROVE IT)” in the first quarter of calendar year 2025. This solicitation will be issued under the OCED Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.

The goal of this pre-solicitation is to support the validation of existing pilot projects or subsystems in a relevant industrial environment; to increase their technology readiness to the point of being ready to be integrated in a large clean energy infrastructure project; and to increase their adoption readiness level[1] to medium/high.

OCED will prioritize technologies and application use cases that exhibit technological diversity when compared to the existing OCED portfolio of demonstration projects[2] or that have not already been demonstrated at a scale larger than the proposed project.

The PROVE IT solicitation will be issued as a Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)-based[3] request for proposals. OCED anticipates awarding milestone-based firm-fixed priced contracts under this solicitation.


[1] https://www.energy.gov/technologytransitions/adoption-readiness-levels-arl-framework

[2] Information on the current OCED portfolio can be found here: https://www.energy.gov/oced/portfolio

[3] https://www.acquisition.gov/

Documents

  • Pre-Solicitation (Last Updated: 12/12/2024 01:19 PM ET)
  • Questions and Answers (Last Updated: 1/13/2025 11:10 AM ET)

Contact Information

Submission Deadlines

  • Full Application Submission Deadline: TBD

DE-FOA-0003485: Generation III+ Small Modular Reactor Pathway to Deployment

This solicitation makes available approximately $900 million in federal funds for projects that will create a credible and sustainable pathway to fleet-level deployment of Gen III+ SMRs. Gen III+ SMRs can provide around-the-clock electricity or process heat to meet the increasing demand for clean, reliable, firm electricity generation or process heat required by U.S. industries.

In particular, SMRs offer the potential for modularity, factory construction, and scalability to meet demand. Additionally, Gen III+ SMRs may be able to revitalize and leverage the service and supply chain infrastructure supporting the existing fleet of light water reactor designs, thus providing a near-term path for new nuclear deployments. However, a demonstration project is critical to overcoming the first-of-a-kind commercial adoption challenges for Gen III+ SMR technology, including:

· Cost Reliability – Delivered cost of recent reactor projects, including cost-overruns and project non-completion, has constrained nuclear energy relative to competing baseload technologies, such as natural gas.

· Resource Maturity – Multiple factors have hindered adoption including:

o Capital Flow – Delays and non-completion of past nuclear projects has resulted in capital flow constraints, where the return of capital and return on capital are on time horizons that inhibit investors and significantly impact an owner’s credit rating.

o Project Development, Integration, and Management – There is no leading constructor for new nuclear projects and the lack of integrated project delivery models has constrained prior projects.

o Manufacturing and Supply Chain – The current domestic nuclear supply chain faces severe bottlenecks on long-lead procurements for major project components. This lack of resilience in capacity, capability, and cost competitiveness is forcing procurements overseas.

o Workforce – The limited number of nuclear-qualified workers, such as welders and plant operators, presents a challenge to scaling nuclear deployments.

Licensing Uncertainty – The risk of licensing new technologies, including the timeframe and cost associated with receiving NRC approval of new nuclear designs, drives hesitancy for potential adopters.

Funding applications will be selected based on the expectations and details described throughout this solicitation. Priority will be given to projects with (1) the highest probability of a successful deployment, (2) the greatest potential to develop a Gen III+ SMR orderbook, and (3) the greatest potential contribution to the resilience of the domestic nuclear industry.

Documents

  • Generation III+ Small Modular Reactor Pathway to Deployment (Last Updated: 10/16/2024 10:33 AM ET)
  • DE-FOA-0003485 GenIII+SMR Working BAA Final Mod 000001 (Last Updated: 1/17/2025 12:12 PM ET)
  • Gen III+ SMR Web Q&A (Last Updated: 1/11/2025 09:08 AM ET)

Application Forms and Templates

The following forms and templates may be used as part of the application submission. Note that these forms and templates do not necessarily constitute all the documents required for a complete application. Please refer to the 'Application and Submission Information' of the published announcement to learn more about the required application content requirements.

Submission Deadlines

  • Full Application Submission Deadline: 1/17/2025 5:00 PM ET

DE-FOA-0003428: Energy Improvements in Rural or Remote Areas - Fiscal Year 2025 Release

Rural and remote areas often have higher energy costs and burden, less resilient energy systems, and fewer alternatives for accessing clean energy compared with their urban counterparts. Furthermore, small communities do not always have the available time, money, or other resources to pursue clean energy options.

This Energy Improvements in Rural or Remote Areas (ERA) funding opportunity provides support for rural and remote communities to build clean energy projects that benefit their communities.

The goals of the program are to:

  1. Deliver measurable and sustained benefits to people who live in rural or remote areas by funding replicable clean energy projects that lower energy costs, improve energy access and resilience, increase economic opportunity, and/or reduce environmental harm.
  2. Demonstrate effective rural or remote energy system approaches using climate-resilient technologies, business structures that promote economic resilience, accessible and appropriate financing mechanisms, and/or best practices in community leadership and engagement, and workforce development.
  3. Build clean energy knowledge, experience, capacity, and self-reliance in rural and remote parts of America.

This program serves communities of 10,000 people or fewer. Applicants must propose projects that support at least one of these eligible activities:

A. Improving overall cost-effectiveness of energy generation, transmission, or distribution systems;

B. Siting or upgrading transmission and distribution lines;

C. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from energy generation in rural or remote areas;

D. Providing or modernizing electric generation facilities;

E. Developing microgrids; and

F. Increasing energy efficiency.

Applications may include any technology that meet the above eligible activities, as long as those technologies are commercially available.

Applicants must choose one of the four topic areas for their project’s application:

  1. Open category
  2. Dual use and co-location
  3. Smaller-scale community-centered
  4. Isolated microgrids & unelectrified buildings

NOTE: Applicants must submit a Concept Paper by 5:00 pm ET on February 27, 2025. Applicants must submit a concept paper by the specified due date and time to be eligible to submit an application. Applicants who do not submit a concept paper cannot apply. DOE will encourage a subset of applicants to submit applications and will discourage the other applicants from submitting an application.

Documents

  • Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): Energy Improvements in Rural or Remote Areas – Fiscal Year 2025 Release (Last Updated: 10/3/2024 10:55 AM ET)
  • Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): Energy Improvements in Rural or Remote Areas – Fiscal Year 2025 Release (Spanish) (Last Updated: 1/15/2025 09:18 AM ET)
  • DE-FOA-0003428_Q&A_Log_posted_13_January_2025 (Last Updated: 1/13/2025 11:46 AM ET)

Application Forms and Templates

The following forms and templates may be used as part of the application submission. Note that these forms and templates do not necessarily constitute all the documents required for a complete application. Please refer to the 'Application and Submission Information' of the published announcement to learn more about the required application content requirements.

Webinar Details

On October 8, 2024, the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) held an informational webinar on the Energy Improvements in Rural or Remote Areas (ERA) program Notice of Funding Opportunity, featuring an overview of the funding announcement, the program, and next steps for applicants.

Webinar recording in English: https://youtu.be/SLWFGCkrNvY

Webinar recording in Spanish: https://youtu.be/7HD9a4sQYLU

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Energy Improvements in Rural or Remote Areas (ERA) Program Technical Assistance

Please see this list of technical assistance programs, including those offered by U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED), other offices within DOE, and other federal agencies, that may benefit communities and organizations following the ERA program. Technical assistance refers to targeted programs, activities, and services provided by federal agencies that improve the performance and deepen the impact of federal programs. Applicant technical assistance through NREL has been paused temporarily.

Contact Information

Submission Deadlines

  • Concept Paper Submission Deadline: 2/27/2025 5:00 PM ET
  • Full Application Submission Deadline: 8/28/2025 5:00 PM ET

DE-FOA-0003399: Energy Storage Pilot Demonstrations

The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) is issuing this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to support technology demonstrations for energy storage solutions at the pilot-scale. The program will focus on non-lithium technologies, long-duration (10+ hour discharge) systems, and stationary storage applications.

This program seeks to:

  • Advance a diverse set of non-lithium energy storage technologies towards commercial viability and utility-scale deployment.
  • Generate high-quality operational datasets and techno-economic models.
  • Build investor, utility, and other end user confidence in the real performance and adoptability of the proposed solutions.

This NOFO makes available approximately $100 million in Federal funds for demonstrations of diverse energy storage technologies, potentially including electrochemical, mechanical, and thermal energy storage systems. DOE intends to fund 5-15 projects with an award size of at least $5 million and no more than $20 million in Federal funds. Each award is required to provide a minimum of 50% non-Federal cost share.

Documents

  • DE-FOA-0003399_Energy_Storage_Pilot_Demonstrations_Mod_1_122024 (Last Updated: 12/20/2024 10:12 AM ET)
  • ESPD3399_Q&A_Log_last_updated_01162025 (Last Updated: 1/28/2025 11:57 AM ET)

Application Forms and Templates

The following forms and templates may be used as part of the application submission. Note that these forms and templates do not necessarily constitute all the documents required for a complete application. Please refer to the 'Application and Submission Information' of the published announcement to learn more about the required application content requirements.

Full Application

  • SF424_4_0-V4 (Last Updated: 9/5/2024 10:17 AM ET)
  • SFLLL_2_0-V2-010625 (Last Updated: 1/6/2025 02:48 PM ET)
  • SF424A-V1 (Last Updated: 9/4/2024 10:36 AM ET)
  • OCED_Budget_Justification_Workbook_08-4-2024 (Last Updated: 9/4/2024 01:16 PM ET)

Submission Deadlines

  • Concept Paper Submission Deadline: 10/16/2024 5:00 PM ET
  • Full Application Submission Deadline: 3/14/2025 5:00 PM ET

TPL-0000002: Teaming Partner List for Inflation Reduction Act Technology Commercialization Fund: Collaborative Alignment for Critical Technology Industries Lab Call - Industrial Decarbonization

DOE is compiling a Teaming Partner List to facilitate the formation of new project teams for Lab Call DE-LC-000L004 entitled “Inflation Reduction Act Technology Commercialization Fund: Collaborative Alignment for Critical Technology Industries Lab Call - Industrial Decarbonization."

As a lab call, only DOE national laboratories, plants, and sites are eligible prime applicants. Successful projects will involve partnerships with stakeholders across the Chemicals & Refining, Concrete and Cement, and Metals value chains with a focus on industrial decarbonization. The Teaming Partner List allows organizations who may wish to participate on an application to express their interest to other applicants and to explore potential partnerships.

Updates to the Teaming Partner List will be available in the OCED eXCHANGE website. The Teaming Partner List will be regularly updated to reflect new teaming partners who provide their organization’s information.

To review the full announcement, follow this link.

Contact Information

Teaming Partners

To access the Teaming Partner List for the announcement, click here.

DE-LC-000L004: Inflation Reduction Act Technology Commercialization Fund: Collaborative Alignment for Critical Technology Industries Lab Call - Industrial Decarbonization

The Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Technology Transistions (OTT), in collaboration with the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED), with support from the Industrial Efficiency & Decarbonization Office (IEDO), and the Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains (MESC), announced the Inflation Reduction Act - Technology Commercialization Fund (IRA TCF) Collaborative Alignment for Critical Technology Industries lab call to bring together stakeholders across industries to address challenges that result when people work on similar issues in isolation, inhibiting scale-up and replication. These lab-led working groups will collaboratively develop and begin to implement recommendations and best practices for resolving identified challenges.

OTT anticipates awarding up to $15 million in Fiscal Year 2024 IRA funding to projects led by DOE National Laboratories to accelerate commercialization in the Chemicals & Refining, Concrete and Cement, and Metals industries with a focus in industrial decarbonization.

Navigate to TPL-0000002 in eXCHANGE to access the Teaming Partner List for this solicitation.

Documents

  • DE-LC-000L004_TCF_IRA_CACTI_ID_LAB_CALL (Last Updated: 8/12/2024 11:42 AM ET)
  • DE-LC-000L004_IRATCF_CACTI_LabCall_QA_10-8 (Last Updated: 10/8/2024 09:50 AM ET)

Webinar Details

OTT and OCED hosted an informational webinar on Wednesday September 4, 2024 at 3pm ET.

Presentation slides and Q&A (including questions from the webinar) are posted here.

  • Informational_Webinar_Presentation_Slides_DE-LC-000L004 (Last Updated: 9/4/2024 05:39 PM ET)

Contact Information

Submission Deadlines

  • Full Application Submission Deadline: 10/14/2024 3:00 PM ET

Teaming Partners

To access the Teaming Partner List for this announcement, click here.

DE-LC-000L003: FY25 OCED Analysis Lab Call

This is a lab call issued by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED). The attached FY25 OCED Analysis Lab Call begins to lay the foundation for longer term activities at the national laboratories tied to OCED's growing project portfolio and long term strategy.

Feedback and questions should be submitted via email to OCEDAnalysisLabCall@hq.doe.gov.

NOTE: If you are a foreign national planning to attend the formal feedback sessions in July 2024, please send an email to OCEDAnalysisLabCall@hq.doe.gov at your earliest convenience. All foreign nationals must have advanced approval by DOE prior to participating in the formal feedback sessions in-person or virtually. Foreign nationals will not be able to participate unless they seek approval well in advance.

Documents

Application Forms and Templates

The following forms and templates may be used as part of the application submission. Note that these forms and templates do not necessarily constitute all the documents required for a complete application. Please refer to the 'Application and Submission Information' of the published announcement to learn more about the required application content requirements.

Concept Paper

  • Form to fill out subtopics and AOIs included in concept paper (Last Updated: 6/7/2024 12:27 PM ET)

Webinar Details

The info session was held over zoom and in-person on April 23-24, 2024. The powerpoint is provided in the webinar documents below. To access a recording of these meetings, please use the following links:

Link to Day 1 Recording

Passcode: 8?*5NMFf

Link to Day 2 Recording

Passcode: a*f=&Q9k

  • OCED_FY_25_Lab_call_info_session_slides (Last Updated: 4/29/2024 04:28 PM ET)

Contact Information

Submission Deadlines

  • Concept Paper Submission Deadline: 6/13/2024 5:00 PM ET
  • Full Application Submission Deadline: 8/23/2024 5:00 PM ET

DE-FOA-0003187: Demand-side RFP for Independent Entity

ATTENTION (10/24/2023): This Funding Opportunity Announcement has been modified and the Submission Deadline has been extended to 6:00 pm EST on 11/2/2023. Please see the full Funding Opportunity Announcement - Mod 000001 in the Announcement Documents section for full details.

DOE is exploring entering into one or multiple agreements with independent, not-for-profit U.S. entities to assist in the de-risking of clean hydrogen through demand certainty or other means. DOE envisions that these measures would accelerate commercialization of clean hydrogen by providing medium-term revenue certainty to projects affiliated with DOE-selected Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs.

Demand-side support measures represent a potential tool to achieve DOE’s authorization to accelerate commercialization of, and demonstrate the production, processing, delivery, storage, and end-use of, clean hydrogen by providing predictability in the commercial market for early deployments. Demand-side support measures have accelerated commercial scale-up of technologies in clean energy and for other critical products and services, both in the United States and abroad.

These measures address a basic issue in scaling up clean energy technology—deployment drives cost reductions, but early deployment depends on demonstrated demand, which is hard to secure while costs are still high, and markets are still nascent. Demand-side measures also address a fundamental mismatch in some markets between producers, who need long-term certainty of high-volume demand in order to secure financing to build a project, and buyers, who often prefer to buy on a short-term basis at more modest volumes, especially for products that have yet to be produced at scale and expected to see cost decreases, like clean hydrogen.

DOE is interested in selecting one or more independent (i.e., non-government), U.S.-based, not-for-profit entities to support and execute clean hydrogen demand-side support mechanisms. Respondents to this solicitation may represent an existing or to-be-established entity, as long as the proposed entity would be formally established ahead of the Design Phase activities described below.

The selected entity or entities would execute demand-side programs and other support measures designed and funded, in part, by DOE to create demand certainty for clean hydrogen projects and facilitate market formation. The selected entity or entities could be a single national entity, several regional entities, or several entities responsible for different phases (design vs. execution).

Potential activities for an independent not-for-profit U.S. entity include, but are not limited to:

  • Applying experience in commodity markets, project finance, and commercial contracting to advise DOE on the design of demand-side measures to support projects affiliated with DOE’s Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs;
  • Executing a DOE-designed and funded demand-side mechanism to support projects affiliated with DOE’s Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs, including accepting and distributing DOE funds to selected projects;
  • Implementing a competitive process designed by DOE for selection of projects or companies for demand-side support;
  • Executing and managing financial agreements with selected recipients of demand-side support; and
  • Engaging with clean energy developers, investors, Government partners, academic institutions, community groups, labor, non-traditional partners, and other stakeholders to inform and support DOE demand-side activities to support commercial liftoff for clean hydrogen.
ATTENTION (10/24/2023): This Funding Opportunity Announcement has been modified and the Submission Deadline has been extended to 6:00 pm EST on 11/2/2023. Please see the full Funding Opportunity Announcement - Mod 000001 in the Announcement Documents section for full details.

Documents

  • DE-FOA-0003187 Demand-side RFP for Independent Entity (Last Updated: 9/14/2023 01:08 PM ET)
  • DE-FOA-0003187 Q&A Log (Last Updated: 11/1/2023 05:25 PM ET)
  • DE-FOA-0003187 Demand-Side RFP for Independent Entity Modification 000001 (Last Updated: 10/24/2023 11:27 AM ET)

Contact Information

Submission Deadlines

  • Full Application Submission Deadline: 11/2/2023 6:00 PM ET

TPL-0000001: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Energy Improvement in Rural or Remote Areas Fixed Award Grant Program

DE-FOA-0003045

Any individual or organization that would like to be included on this list should submit the following required information (unless noted as optional): Organization’s Name (if an organization), Organization Type (if an organization), Organization or Individual’s Webpage (required to provide if one exists), Contact Name, Contact Address (include country; street number and name, and unit or suite number are optional), Contact Email, Contact Phone (include country and area code), Area(s) of Technical Expertise, Brief Description of Capability(ies), Description of Need in a Partner(s).

By submitting a request to be included on the Teaming Partner List, the requesting individual or organization (if an organization) consents to the publication of the above-referenced information. By facilitating the Teaming Partner List, DOE is not endorsing, sponsoring, or otherwise evaluating the qualifications of the individuals and organizations that are self-identifying themselves for placement on this Teaming Partner List. DOE will not pay for the provision of any information, nor will it compensate any applicants or requesting organizations for the development of such information.

Contact Information

  • ERAGrant@hq.doe.gov 
    For questions regarding the Teaming Partner List or content of the associated FOA

Teaming Partners

To access the Teaming Partner List for the announcement, click here.