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With the Energy Department’s new Apps for Energy competition, we’re challenging developers to use the Green Button data access program to bring residential and commercial utility data to life.
The Energy Department – in partnership with Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Itron, and Gridwise Alliance – is offering $100,000 in cash prizes to the software developers and designers that submit the best apps, as judged by a prestigious panel of judges selected from government, the energy industry, and the tech community.
Apps for ENERGY leverages Green Button, an initiative that gives access to energy usage data in a streamlined and easy-to-understand format (learn more about the Green Button open standardhere). In addition to leveraging Green Button, app developers are encouraged to combine data from a variety of sources to present a complete picture of the customer’s energy usage.
$60 million to perform critical research on energy storage systems and devise new approaches for battery storage;
$770 million for nuclear energy, including $65 million for cost-shared awards to support first-of-a-kind small modular reactors and $60 million for nuclear waste R&D that aligns with the recommendations of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future;
$276 million for research and development of advanced fossil fuel power systems and carbon capture, utilization and storage technologies to allow for the continued use of our abundant domestic coal resources while reducing greenhouse gas emissions;
$350 million for the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to continue support for promising early-stage research projects that could deliver game-changing clean energy technologies;
$120 million to support the Energy Frontier Research Centers and $140 million for the five existing Energy Innovation Hubs and to establish a new hub to focus on grid systems and the tie between transmission and distribution systems;
$11.5 billion to protect Americans by maintaining U.S. nuclear deterrence capabilities, reducing nuclear dangers in an increasingly unstable and unpredictable world, and providing for the Navy’s nuclear propulsion needs; and
$2.5 billion to support NNSA’s Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation program, which plays a critical role in completing the President’s goal of securing all vulnerable nuclear material around the world in four years.
The budget request for fiscal year 2013 also highlights the steps the Department continues to take to improve its management and operations, and reduce costs. Some examples include:
Eliminating 4.6 million gross square feet of excess real property, over 3 million sq. feet more than the FY 2011 target, which will avoid future operations and maintenance costs;
Reducing its time-to-hire new employees by 45 percent; and
Reducing, consolidating or moving 40 percent of its websites to the Energy.gov platform to increase communication and transparency, and streamline website infrastructure processes, which will save more than $10 million a year.
Laboratory Table Summarizes funding by decision unit and by the laboratories at which DOE does work.
Richard Kauffman, newly appointed Senior Advisor to Energy Secretary Chu, answers you questions on how the U.S. Department of Energy can better move renewable energy technologies from labs to the market, to successful full-scale deployment.
Minnesota State Energy Sector Partnership New Green Training Grants Available for Minnesota Businesses and Organizations Location: Minnesota Budget: $1,600,000 (Award min. $25,000; Award max. $250,000) DOE New SunShot Incubator Program – Soft Cost Reduction Location: USA Budget: $7,000,000 (Cost Sharing Requirements) Due Date: Concept papers: 1/16/12; Full application: 3/5/2012 Be sure to check past RFP posts for more active opportunities.
Technological innovation – faster computers, more efficient solar cells, more compact energy storage – is often enabled by materials advances. How can we innovate with greater productivity and faster to market successes? The Materials Project seeks to streamline material analyses and simulations by providing a search engine with computing properties of all known materials. This . . . → Read More: Materials Challenges – How Can We Innovate?
US DOI Bureau of Reclamation – Denver Office New WaterSMART: Water and Energy Efficiency Grants for FY 2012 Location: Western USA Budget: $18,000,000 (Award Ceiling $1,500,000) Due Date: 1/19/2012
Surdna Foundation Sustainable Environments Grants Location: USA Due Date: February, May and September. Requests required three to four months in advance.
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The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority requests proposals for the Development of New Bioproducts and Biofuels in New York State. This initiative will facilitate the development of innovative and environmentally responsible biomass feedstock technologies and bioproducts, including biofuels, bioproducts used for heat or power . . . → Read More: Funding Opportunities Part III – October, 2011
The U.S. Department of Energy announces its continuing interest in receiving applications for the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: Basic Energy Sciences and Biological and Environmental Research, and Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists. Subtopics include Solar Photochemistry Research, and Climate . . . → Read More: Funding Opportunities Part II – October, 2011
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency requests proposals for Community Responses to Human Health Threats from Climate Change in Urban Areas. Work shall include identification of how local decision-makers respond to change, including acute events; what decision-makers view as their vulnerabilities to climate change; development of an evidence-based set of . . . → Read More: Funding Opportunities Part I – October, 2011
Efficient Homes Initiative Location: Pacific Northwest Budget: Estimated $1,900,000 for 2012, $1,500,000 for 2013, $1,300,000 for 2014 Final Due Date: 10/11/11
NSF Sustainability Research Networks Competition Location: USA Budget: $36,000,000 (Max. $12,000,000/award) Due Date: 12/1/11 WECC Nicor Gas Energy Efficiency Marketing Program Location: Illinois Budget: $200,000-$400,000 per plan Due Date: 10/10/11
Efficiency Maine New Competitive Program . . . → Read More: RFP Opportunities
Here are some funding links to help in your search.
National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) solicitations and financial opportunities are located at: http://www.netl.doe.gov/business/solicitations/index.html DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) financial opportunities are located at: http://www1.eere.energy.gov/financing/business.html Federal government funding opportunities are located at: http://www.grants.gov/, and at: https://www.fbo.gov/
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business . . . → Read More: Energy Funding Links
17) Transportation (Natural Gas) Innovations – California
The California Energy Commission requests proposals for Energy Innovations Small Grant Program – Transportation Program (Natural Gas). This program supports R&D, demonstration, and deployment of advanced fuel-efficient natural gas powered transportation technologies and fuel switching strategies that are cost-effective and will reduce petroleum fuel use. Individual hardware awards . . . → Read More: Funding Opportunities Part III – September, 2011
8) San Luis Basin Sustainability Project – Colorado
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency requests proposals for the San Luis Basin Sustainability Project. Through this RFP, EPA will support the development of a plan, calculation of sustainability metrics using publicly-available data on the San Luis Basin region, compilation of the results into a report, publication of . . . → Read More: Funding Opportunities Part II – September, 2011
The U.S. Department of Energy requests proposals for PV Manufacturing Initiative Part 2: SUNPATH (Scaling Up Nascent PV AT Home). Through this RFP, DOE seeks industrial scale demonstration of the applicant’s PV module, cells, or substrates that are at least 15% lower in cost per watt than the current market . . . → Read More: Funding Opportunities Part I – September, 2011
DOE Solid State Lighting Core Technologies Location: New York | Budget: $6,000,000 | Due: 11/3/11
Focus on Energy Media campaign RFP to promote ENERGY STAR® qualified compact fluorescent bulbs (CFLs) Location: Wisconsin | Budget:$240,000 Due: 8/19/11
DOE Conferences, Outreach, and Networking for New Energy Communities and Technologies Location: USA | Budget: $100,000 (Award min. $5,000; Award max. $25,000 | Due: 12/4/12
The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (OES) and the Office of Global Change (EGC) requests proposals for an Outcome Evaluation of the Methane to Markets (M2M) Partnership Relative to the Office of Global Change Funding, FY2006-FY2010. Recognizing the role of methane . . . → Read More: Funding Opportunities – July Part IV
The U.S. Department of Energy requests proposals for the Innovative Manufacturing Initiative. This RFP will support manufacturing processes and materials to advance the clean energy economy. $120 million expected to be available, up to 50 awards anticipated. Letters of Intent are required, and are due 8/1/11, final proposals due 8/25/11. For . . . → Read More: Funding Opportunities – July Part III
The U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, requests proposals for WaterSMART Applied Science Grants for the Southern Rockies Landscape Conservation Cooperative. This will include analyzing the impacts of climate change and other landscape scale stressors on natural or cultural resources that affect or are affected by water resources management, . . . → Read More: Funding Opportunities – July Part II
The U.S. Department of Transportation requests proposals for the Clean Fuels/Bus and Bus Facilities Program. This program will support: 1) The purchase or leasing of clean fuel buses, including buses that employ a lightweight composite structure, 2) Construction or leasing of clean fuel bus facilities or electrical recharging facilities . . . → Read More: Funding Opportunities – July Part I
“A Guide to State Clean Energy Policy Options” – Developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory
NREL created A Guide to State Clean Energy Policy Options for states interested in exploring their clean policy options as they relate to their clean energy goals. It serves as a decision tool to help them investigate their . . . → Read More: Create Your State Clean Energy Policy
As electric utilities strive to reduce peak demand and provide consumers with a powerful set of energy efficiency tools as part of their smart grid initiatives, the home energy management (HEM) market is beginning to take shape. HEM vendors are seeking to be “the face” of the smart grid by providing consumers . . . → Read More: Home Energy Management Users to Reach 63 Million by 2020, Says Pike Research
ZDnet – June 12, 2011 – On Monday, the Obama administration is preparing announce the next steps that the US will take to build its 21st century electric grid, and IT is expected to play a big part in the plans. The White House is hosting a 90-minute media event called “Building the 21st Century . . . → Read More: White House to announce IT-powered smart grid on Monday
href=”http://ase.org/resources/energy-savings-and-industrial-competitiveness-act-2011-section-section-summary”>Section-by-Section Summary – Alliance To Save Energy
A summary of the energy efficiency provisions in the Energy Savings & Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2011 (ESICA). The summary is based on text jointly introduced on May 12, 2011 by Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D. N.H.) and Senator Rob Portman (R. OH), and referred to the Senate . . . → Read More: The Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2011
General Electric has rolled out a contest giving eco-entrepreneurs the chance at two of the things they covet most: opportunities to get noticed and get funded.
As part of its initiative to accelerate the development and deployment of clean energy technology, GE has launched a series of challenges designed for . . . → Read More: GE Offers Big Reward for Home Energy Innovation
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