DOE Solicitation

Energy Innovation – Fuels from Sunlight— The Department of Energy will launch three Energy Innovation Hubs in FY2010—one in each of the focus areas listed:  (1)Fuels from Sunlight,  (2)Energy Efficient Building Systems Design, and (3) Modeling and Simulation for Nuclear Reactors. The Hubs will seek to rapidly drive energy solutions to their fundamental limits.  Each Hub will support cross-disciplinary R&D focused on the barriers to transforming its energy technologies into commercially deployable materials, devices, and systems.  The ultimate goal of each will be to advance a highly promising area of energy science and technology to the point that the risk level will be low enough for industry to deploy solutions into the marketplace. The Hubs will foster unique scientific collaboration that will be critical to success, and must be backed by a meaningful and sustained investment.  The initial award period is for five years.  Each Hub will be funded at a total of $22 million in FY 2010, with up to $10 million of those funds to be devoted to infrastructure start-up for the Hub, including building renovation (but no new construction), lease arrangements, equipment, and instrumentation.  It is anticipated that each Hub established in FY 2010 will be funded at $25 million per year for Hub operations in the final four years (FY 2011 – FY 2014) of the initial award period, pending Congressional appropriations.  Expected Number of Awards: 1  /Estimated Total Program Funding: $122,000,000  Current Closing Date for Applications: Mar 29, 2010    NOTE: You are encouraged to transmit your application well before the deadline. APPLICATIONS RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE REVIEWED OR CONSIDERED FOR AWARD.

Posted Date: Dec 22, 2009

Funding Opportunity Number: DE-FOA-0000214