DE-FOA-0003233: Notice of Intent to Issue Funding Opportunity Announcement Number DE-FOA-0003209
ID: 351540Type: Posted
Overview

Buyer

Golden Field Office (DOE-GFO)

Award Range

$0 - $1

Eligible Applicants

Unrestricted

Funding Category

Energy

Funding Instrument

Other

Opportunity Category

Discretionary

Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement

Yes

Original Source

https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/351540
Timeline
  1. 1
    Forecast Posted Not available
  2. 2
    Forecast Due Not available
  3. 3
    Posted Dec 18, 2023 12:00 AM
  4. 4
    Due Jan 24, 2024 12:00 AM
Description

The Golden Field Office of the Department of Energy (DOE-GFO) has posted a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) titled "Regional Resource Hubs for Purpose-Grown Energy Crops". This FOA, issued on behalf of the Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO), aims to support research and development (R&D) priorities in the area of Renewable Carbon Resources (RCR). The goal is to develop strategies and technologies to transform renewable carbon resources into high-quality, environmentally sustainable feedstocks for biofuels and bioproducts. The FOA will focus on improving the efficiency, sustainability, and reliability of feedstock production, harvesting, storage, preprocessing, and transportation. The objective is to establish a domestic supply chain of purpose-grown energy crops to decarbonize the U.S. transportation and industrial sectors. The FOA will fund R&D projects that mobilize low carbon intensity, purpose-grown energy crops, contributing to the Clean Fuels and Products Shot™ and the 2050 sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production targets. The FOA may include an Area of Interest (AOI) focused on demonstrating the long-term yield and sustainability of purpose-grown energy crops across different agronomic and geographic landscapes. The FOA will also prioritize the verification and validation of improved agronomic practices to reduce the carbon intensity of biomass resources. Feedstocks of interest include algae, herbaceous crops, short-rotation woody crops, and intermediate crops. Selected projects will become members of the Regional Biomass Resource Hub Initiative, working with the Initiative Coordinator, Idaho National Laboratory (INL), to achieve the FOA objectives. It is important to note that INL is not eligible to apply for funding as a Prime Recipient or be proposed as a Subrecipient. Interested parties should register in EERE eXCHANGE to receive official notifications and information regarding this FOA. The FOA is expected to be released in January 2024 through the EERE eXCHANGE website.

Point(s) of Contact
ryan.mccleary@ee.doe.gov
Files
Title
Posted
DE-FOA-0003233 Notice of Intent to Issue DE-FOA-0003209.pdf
4/10/2024
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