Clean Coal Power Initiative, Round 3

The summary for the Clean Coal Power Initiative, Round 3 grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, 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 as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the National Energy Technology Laboratory, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

Clean Coal Power Initiative, Round 3: POSTED 12/03/2008: A representation of Questions and Answers from the Nov. 20 Pre-Application webcast have been posted for public viewing. The document is available near the bottom of the page under Full Announcement and Other Files . POSTED 11/19/2008: Amendment 003 to the Final FOA has been issued. The purpose of this amendment is to revise the anticipated amount of DOE funding from $340 million to $440 million. Please review the amended Funding Opportunity Announcement document at the bottom of the page for further details. POSTED 11/18/2008: Meeting details (including meeting number and passcode) for the Nov. 20 Pre-application Webcast have been corrected. The webcast time and date remains unchanged. Revised information is contained in the document entitled Webcast info REVISED under Full Announcement and Other Files at the bottom of the page. POSTED 11/17/2008: The National Energy Technology Laboratory will be hosting a Pre-Application Webcast for the Clean Coal Power Initiative Round 3 (CCPI-3). The webcast will be held on Thursday November 20, 2008 at 1:00-4:00 PM Eastern Time. The purpose of this CCPI-3 Pre-Application Webcast is to answer questions from organizations currently in the process of writing applications in response to the CCPI-3 Funding Opportunity Announcement. POSTED 10/29/2008: Amendment 002 to the Final FOA has been issued. The purpose of this amendment is to clarify the requirement that the 35% Cost of Electricity (COE) target applies to combustion and oxycombustion systems while the 10% COE target applies to gasification systems. Please review the amended Funding Opportunity Announcement document at the bottom of the page for further details. POSTED 09/09/2008: Amendment 001 to the Final FOA has been issued. The purpose of this amendment is to clarify the requirement that plants operate at a 90% carbon DIOXIDE capture efficiency and not a total carbon capture efficiency. Please review the amended Funding Opportunity Announcement document at the bottom of the page for further details. POSTED 08/11/2008: The FINAL Funding Opportunity Announcement for the Clean Coal Power Initiative Round 3 has been posted. Applications are now being accepted through www.Grants.gov. To download the application package, click on the following link and then click on Application near the top right corner. http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do? mode=VIEW flag2006=true oppId=18226 You cannot submit an application through Grants.gov unless you are registered. Please read the registration requirements carefully and start the process immediately. Applicants who are not registered with CCR and Grants.gov should allow at least 21 days to complete these requirements. It is suggested that the process be started as soon as possible. Parties interested in CCPI Round 3 are encouraged to join the mailing list to receive notification of important updates to the FOA. To join the mailing list, click on Join Mailing List on the left hand side of the screen. The description below provides an overview of this Funding Opportunity. You must read the Funding Opportunity Announcement document for details on additional information, evaluation criteria, and how to prepare an application. Please scroll to the bottom of this page under the heading Full Announcement and Other Files and click on the link to access the Funding Opportunity Announcement and associated files. This CCPI Round 3 Announcement is seeking advanced coal-based projects that have progressed beyond the research and development stage to a point of readiness for operation at a scale that, once demonstrated, can be readily replicated and deployed into commercial practice within the electric power industry. This CCPI announcement is specifically targeting advanced coal-based systems and subsystems that capture and sequester, or put to beneficial reuse, carbon dioxide emissions. The announcement is also open to any coal-based, advanced carbon capture technologies that result in co-benefits with respect to efficiency, environmental, or economic improvements potentially capable of achieving CCPI coal technology performance levels specified in the EPACT 2005, Title IV, Subtitle A, Section 402 (Table 1). DOE's goals in this Announcement are to demonstrate at commercial scale in a commercial setting technologies that (1) operate at 90% carbon dioxide capture efficiency (2) make progress toward capture and sequestration at less than 10% increase in the COE for gasification systems and less than 35% for combustion and oxycombustion systems, and (3) make progress toward capture and sequestration of 50% of plant CO2 output at a scale sufficient to evaluate impact of the carbon capture technology on plant operations, economics, and performance. At least 300,000 tons per year of carbon dioxide emissions from the demonstration plant must be captured and sequestered or put to beneficial reuse. The carbon capture process must operate at a capture efficiency of at least 90%. A thirty day running average will be used to determine if the project successfully meets the carbon dioxide capture efficiency and the capture and sequestration or beneficial reuse rate requirements of this Announcement. Coal-based power technologies may produce heat, fuels, chemicals, hydrogen or other useful byproducts in combination with production of electricity. Proposed carbon capture technologies must be integrated within existing or new power plant facilities that use U.S mined coal or coal refuse for at least 75% of the energy input and produce electricity as at least 50% of the energy output. Project activities, including carbon dioxide capture, transport, sequestration or beneficial reuse, and monitoring, must be conducted in the United States, and projects must be at a sufficient scale to show the potential for market penetration upon successful demonstration of the technology or concept. Prospective projects must also be integrated with commercial plant operation. DOE is interested in demonstrating leading edge technologies not currently deployed in the utility marketplace, as opposed to new applications of commercial technologies or marginal improvements of commercial technologies or previously demonstrated technologies. DOE anticipates award of multiple Cooperative Agreements. The cost-share by the recipient must be at least 50% for each budget period under the Cooperative Agreement, and DOE expects the recipient's share to be proportionately greater than 50% for projects with reduced technological risk or reduced uncertainty. Each project shall be broken down into phases aligned with Project Definition (optional), Design, Construction, and Demonstration/Operations. For funding purposes, projects will also be broken down into budget periods coinciding with these phases. DOE's responses to questions and comments received in response to the Draft FOA are posted on NETL's website at: http://www.netl.doe.gov/technologies/coalpower/cctc/ccpi/bibliography/program/so licitations/ccpi_3_solicitation.html See the document entitled CCPI 3 Responses to Questions and Comments.pdf