Energy Innovation - Fuels from Sunlight

The summary for the Energy Innovation - Fuels from Sunlight Federal Grant is detailed below. It contains information such as the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) number, who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, important deadlines, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed in the Grant Announcement Contact section. If these sections are incomplete, please visit the website of the government agency that is offering this grant.


	Federal Grant Title:	Energy Innovation - Fuels from Sunlight
	CFDA Number:	81.049
	CFDA Description:	Office of Science Financial Assistance Program
	Federal Agency Name:	Chicago Service Center
	Category of Funding Activity:	Energy
	Category Explanation:	Information not provided
	Opportunity Category:	Discretionary
	Funding Opportunity Number:	DE-FOA-0000214
	Document Type:	Grants Notice
	Funding Instrument Type:	Cooperative Agreement
	Posted Date:	Dec 22, 2009
	Creation Date:	Dec 22, 2009
	Original Closing Date for Applications:	Mar 29, 2010 NOTE: You are encouraged to transmit your application well before the deadline. The Grants.gov Helpdesk is not available after 9:00 PM Eastern Time. APPLICATIONS RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE REVIEWED OR CONSIDERED FOR AWARD.
	Current Closing Date for Applications:	Mar 29, 2010 NOTE: You are encouraged to transmit your application well before the deadline. The Grants.gov Helpdesk is not available after 9:00 PM Eastern Time. APPLICATIONS RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE REVIEWED OR CONSIDERED FOR AWARD.
	Archive Date:	Jun 30, 2010
	Expected Number of Awards:	1
	Estimated Total Program Funding:	$122,000,000
	Federal Grant Award Ceiling:	$122,000,000
	Federal Grant Award Floor:	Information not provided
	Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	No

Applicants Eligible for this Grant: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"
Additional Information on Eligibility: All types of domestic entities (defined as any entity incorporated in the United States and having a substantial U.S. presence, as evidenced by having a significant business center and/or significant employment in the U.S.), including DOE/NNSA Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDC) contractors, are eligible to apply as prime applicants, with the exception of other Federal agencies, non-DOE/NNSA FFRDC contractors, and nonprofit organizations described in section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 that engaged in lobbying activities after December 31, 1995. DOE may also consider making an award to a consortium, under a TIA award. See 10 CFR 603.210, 603.225(b), and 603.515. See Section III.C of the FOA for cost sharing requirements.
Grant Description: The Department of Energy will launch three Energy Innovation Hubs in FY2010: Fuels from Sunlight, Energy Efficient Building Systems Design, and Modeling and Simulation for Nuclear Reactors. The Secretary of Energy has identified the problems in these topic areas as presenting the most critical barriers to achieving national energy and climate goals while having proven resistant to solution by conventional Research and Development enterprise structures. In a new Research and Development structure modeled on the Department's successful Bioenergy Research Centers, each Hub will comprise a highly collaborative team, spanning multiple scientific, engineering, and where appropriate, economics, and public-policy disciplines. By bringing together top talent across the full spectrum of Research and Development performers, including universities private industry, non-profits, and National Laboratories, each Hub is expected to become a world-leading Research an d Development center in its topical area. The Hubs will seek to rapidly drive energy solutions to their fundamental limits. Each Hub will support cross-disciplinary Research and Development 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. After nearly 3 billion years of evolution, nature can effectively convert sunlight into energy-rich chemical fuels using the abundant feedstocks of water and carbon dioxide. All fuels used today to power vehicles and create electricity, whether from fossil or biomass resources, are ultimately der
Link to Full Grant Announcement: https://www.fedconnect.net/fedconnect/
Grant Announcement Contact: Marlene E. Martinez, 630-252-2080marlene.martinez@ch.doe.gov
marlene.martinez@ch.doe.gov [marlene.martinez@ch.doe.gov]
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