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Department of Energy Office of Science

The American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) provides $1.6 billion for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, which funds research in such areas as climate science, biofuels, high-energy physics, nuclear physics and fusion energy sciences – areas crucial to our energy future.

$1.6 billion Science and basic research in the energy technologies of the future
$3.4 billion Clean fossil energy technology
$800 million next generation biofuels

Department of Energy, Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)

Provides $400 million for the Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to support high-risk, high-payoff research into energy sources and energy efficiency in collaboration with industry.

Check the DoE ARRA Site for more information.

CHANGE IN SUBMISSION REQUIREMENT EFFECTIVE March 12, 2009

The Office of Science is now requiring all financial assistance applications be submitted through the Department of Energy e-Center (IIPS) http://doe-iips.pr.doe.gov/. Applicants will still need to visit the Grants.gov website http://www.grants.gov/ to download the required Application Package (forms), by clicking on "Apply for Grants" and searching for the Funding Opportunity Announcement.

For Instructions on the Use of IIPS visit this web page, IIPS Instructions. http://www.sc.doe.gov/grants/iips-Instructions.html.

Recently posted funding opportunities/notices:

U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today (10/1/09) that funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will be awarded to support at least 80 graduate fellowships to U.S. students pursuing advanced degrees in science, mathematics, and engineering through the newly created Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Fellowship program.
Applicants must be pursuing graduate study and research in the physical, biological, engineering and computational sciences.
Approximately $12.5 million will be available for this program.
Completed applications are due November 30, 2009
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today (8/4/09) that up to $327 million in new funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will go toward scientific research, instrumentation, and laboratory infrastructure projects. Ten of DOE's national laboratories in six states will be receiving funds, along with researchers at institutions of higher learning across the nation.

Among the new approved projects are:

Several initiatives to advance civilian supercomputing
New equipment for the DOE Bioenergy Research Centers
New equipment for DOE Joint Genome Institute
Improvements at high-intensity light sources
Facilities upgrades and new equipment at several national laboratories and universities for fusion energy research
Expanded funding for integrated climate research
Analysis of Smart Grid technology

U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today (7/17/09) that up to $85 million in funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will be awarded in early 2010 to support at least 50 early career researchers for five years at U.S. academic institutions and DOE national laboratories.

To be eligible for the competition, a researcher must be an untenured, tenure-track assistant professor at a U.S. academic institution or a full-time employee at a DOE national laboratory. The applicant must also have received a Ph.D. within the past ten years.

Each university award will be at least $150,000 per year for five years to support summer salary and other research expenses. For DOE national laboratories, awards will be at least $500,000 per year for five years to support year-round salary and expenses.

Early career researchers may apply to one of six Office of Science program offices: Advanced Scientific Computing Research; Biological and Environmental Research; Basic Energy Sciences; Fusion Energy Sciences; High Energy Physics; or Nuclear Physics. Proposed research topics must fall within the programmatic priorities of DOE’s Office of Science, which are provided in the program announcements. Funding will be competitively awarded on the basis of peer review.

Letters of intent will be due on August 1, 2009, and proposals will be due on September 1, 2009.

Recovery Act: Early Career Research Program (7/2/09)
The purpose of this program is to support the development of individual research programs of outstanding scientists early in their careers and to stimulate research careers in the area supported by the DOE Office of Science. Deadlines: August 3, 2009 (LOI), September 1, 2009 (APP). DE-PS02-09ER09-26
Recovery Act: Advanced Energy Efficient Building Technology (6/29/09)
The Department of Energy (DOE), National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), on behalf of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy¿s (EERE) Building Technologies Program (BTP), is seeking applications under six broad Areas of Interest. Deadline 8/18/09. DE-FOA-0000115

Recovery Act: Solid-State Lighting Core - Round VI (6/29/09)
This Announcement is the sixth in a series of announcements projected to span the next decade. As the relevant SSL technology base matures, it is anticipated that the present level, applied research, will advance to market conditioning once the targets for efficiency, cost, longevity, stability, and control are demonstrated in a product environment. Deadline 8/10/09. DE-FOA-0000082

Recovery Act: Solid-State Lighting Product Development - Round VI (6/29/09)
The objective of this Announcement is product development of general illumination SSL sources, luminaires, and enabling products. Product development is the systematic use of knowledge gained from basic and applied research to develop or improve commercially viable materials, devices, or systems. Deadline 8/17/09. DE-FOA-0000055

Recovery Act: Enhancing State Government Energy Assurance Capabilities and Planning for Smart Grid Resiliency
The program focuses on developing new, or refining existing, plans to integrate new energy portfolios (renewables, biofuels, etc) and new applications, such as Smart Grid technology, into energy assurance and emergency preparedness plans. Better planning efforts will help contribute to the resiliency of the energy sector, including the electricity grid, by focusing on the entire energy supply system, which includes refining, storage, and distribution of fossil and renewable fuels. Deadline 7/30/09. DE-FOA-0000091
Recovery Act: Resource Assessment and Interconnection-Level Transmission Analysis and Planning
The program's purpose is to facilitate the development or strengthening of capabilities in each of the three interconnections serving the lower 48 states of the US, to prepare analyses of transmission requirements under a broad range of alternative futures and develop long-term interconnection-wide transmission expansion plans. Deadline 8/14/09 DE-FOA-0000068
Recovery Act: Carbon Capture and Sequestration from Industrial Sources and Innovative Concepts for Beneficial CO2 Use
The sponsor is soliciting proposals from eligible applicants under a cost-shared collaboration between the Government and industry to increase investment in clean industrial technologies and sequestration projects. Deadline 8/7/09.
DE-FOA-0000015
Recovery Act: Geothermal Technologies Program: Ground Source Heat Pumps
DOE seeks to increase the deployment of ground source heat pumps through new commercialization strategies. Deadline 8/6/09. DE-FOA-0000116
Recovery Act: Industrial Energy Efficiency: The sponsor is soliciting applications for cost-shared projects that will deploy sustainable energy infrastructure projects and energy efficient industrial technologies. Deadline 7/14/09
DE-FOA-0000044
Recovery Act: Energy Efficient Information and Communications Technology: The funding program seeks to develop new technologies to dramatically improve energy efficiency in Information Communication Technology (ICT) with an emphasis on new technologies that can be commercialized within the next three to five years, and to demonstrate through field testing highly energy efficient, emerging technologies that are ready for or are in the initial stage of commercial introduction. Deadline 7/21/09. DE-FOA-0000107
Geothermal Technologies Program: The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Geothermal Technologies Program (GTP) intends to continue its partnership with the geothermal community on geothermal systems research, exploration, demonstration, and development throughout the United States. This three-topic FOA will focus on areas associated with geothermal energy. Topic Area 1: Validation of Innovative Exploration Technologies. Topic Area 2: Geothermal Energy Production from Low Temperature Resources, Coproduced Fluids from Oil and Gas Wells, and Geopressured Resources. Topic Area 3: Geothermal Data Development, Collection, and Maintenance.
Deadline: July 22, 2009 DE-FOA-0000109

Recovery Act: High Penetration Solar Deployment: The Department has three goals with this solicitation 1) develop the needed modeling tools and database of experience with high penetration scenarios of PV on a distribution system, 2) develop monitoring, control and integration systems to enable cost-effective widespread deployment of small modular PV systems and 3) demonstrate the integration of PV and energy storage into Smart Grid applications. Deadline: July 30, 2009
DE-FOA-0000085

Recovery Act: Solar Market Transformation: DOE is seeking to identify and minimize or remove barriers to solar technology commercialization as quickly and efficiently as possible. Given the proximity of its 2015 goal, DOE is seeking to make large and significant changes in the marketplace through its activities. Deadline: July 30, 2009 DE-FOA-0000078

Recovery Act: Wind Energy Consortia between Institutions of Higher Learning and Industry: Eligibility is restricted to consortia led by an institution of higher learning. The funding will be focused on two complementary areas, but not separate topics: Topic Area 1: Partnerships for Wind Research and Turbine Reliability. Topic Area 2: Wind Energy Research Development.
Deadline: July 29, 2009 DE-FOA-0000090

Secretary Chu Announces Nearly $800 Million from Recovery Act to Accelerate Biofuels Research and Commercialization http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/news/news_detail.cfm/news_id=12488?print As part of the ongoing effort to increase the use of domestic renewable fuels, U.S. Secretary of Energy
Steven Chu announced plans to provide $786.5 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to accelerate advanced biofuels research and development and to provide additional funding for commercial-scale biorefinery demonstration projects.

Special Notice The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of the Biomass Program (OBP) intends to issue two Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) to address research and development efforts related to intermediate ethanol blends and algal and advanced biofuels. DOE expects to publish both FOAs in the summer of 2009. This special advance notice is intended to provide potential applicants the opportunity to develop partnerships and begin the process of gathering data to prepare their applications. To see full notice:
https://e-center2.doe.gov/doebiz.nsf/d76fbc294818822885256d98006c63b6/
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ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy) issued an initial solicitation today (4/27/09) that will focus on applicants with a well-formed R&D plan for transformational concept or new technology that can make a significant contribution towards attainment of the President's Energy Plan. Under this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA, ARPA-E will fund energy technology projects that (1) translate scientific discoveries and cutting-edge inventions into technological innovations and (2) accelerate transformational technological advances in areas that industry is not like to undertake independently because of high technical or financial risk. ARPA-E anticipates awarding agreements totaling up to $150 million under DE-FOA-0000065.

Recovery Act (ARRA) - R&D on Alternative Isotope Production Techniques
Notice DE-PS02-09ER09-14 --Posted March 19, 2009
Formal applications must be received by May 15, 2009.

Recovery Act - Applications of Nuclear Science and Technology Initiative
DE-PS02-09ER09-13
Under this recovery act program, the sponsor is interested in receiving applications for initiatives in Applications of Nuclear Science and Technology, aimed at research and development activities in nuclear science that are relevant to applications important to the Nation. Deadline: 5/6/09

Recovery Act - Transportation Electrification
DE-FOA-0000028
The sponsor is seeking applications for grants to establish development, demonstration, evaluation, and education projects to accelerate the market introduction and penetration of advanced electric drive vehicles. DOE's goal is for the vehicles and electric technologies to achieve a fast market introduction and reach high volume production. Deadline: 5/13/09