Opportunity Information: Apply for DE FOA 0001877
This notice is an advance heads-up from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), specifically the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) Crosscutting Research Program, that DOE intended to release a forthcoming Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) focused on improving how fossil-based power systems operate. The planned FOA is described as aiming to support innovative research and development that can boost operability, reliability, and overall economic performance for fossil energy technologies, with an emphasis on improving performance while reducing costs. It is important to read this as a pre-announcement rather than an open solicitation: the notice is explicitly not accepting applications, and it also asks potential applicants not to submit questions or otherwise respond to the notice itself.
The opportunity is framed as a discretionary federal funding action using a cooperative agreement as the anticipated award instrument. Cooperative agreements typically imply substantial involvement by the federal agency during the project, meaning awardees often collaborate more directly with DOE/NETL than they would under a standard grant. The activity category is energy, and it is associated with CFDA number 81.089. Eligibility is listed as unrestricted, meaning a wide range of entities could potentially apply once the actual FOA is released, subject to any additional eligibility conditions that would be spelled out in the FOA text.
Programmatically, DOE signaled that the anticipated FOA would be organized around two Areas of Interest (AOIs). The first AOI is Cybersecure Sensors and Controls Technology. This area points to R&D that improves the sensing, monitoring, and control systems used in power plants and related fossil energy infrastructure, while explicitly addressing cybersecurity. The intent is to advance technologies that can help power systems run more reliably and efficiently while being resilient to cyber threats, which can affect availability, safety, and operational continuity.
The second AOI is Computational Materials Modeling pertinent to Advanced Manufacturing. This focus suggests support for research that uses computational methods to model, predict, and optimize materials behavior in ways that are relevant to manufacturing advanced components used in fossil energy systems. In practical terms, this can include computational tools and approaches that accelerate materials development, improve manufacturability, reduce trial-and-error, and support better performance under harsh operating conditions, all of which can translate into cost and reliability gains.
Several administrative details in the source data clarify the context and timing. The notice references an intended FOA (DE-FOA-0001854) while the notice itself is cataloged under a different opportunity number (DE-FOA-0001877), which is a common situation when a notice of intent is posted separately from the eventual full solicitation. The notice lists a creation date of January 9, 2018, and mentions an anticipated posting of the actual FOA on Grants.gov around January 2018. A February 28, 2018 date appears as an original closing date for the notice entry, but it does not represent an application deadline for this notice because the notice is not a vehicle for submitting proposals. The record also includes fields like an expected number of awards (5) and an award ceiling (listed as 1), but those figures should be treated cautiously at the notice stage because the definitive funding levels, number of awards, and any ceilings or floors are typically finalized and confirmed in the full FOA documentation.
Overall, what this notice communicates is the government’s intent to soon solicit competitive R&D projects under NETL’s crosscutting portfolio, targeting two technical thrusts: cybersecure instrumentation and controls, and computational materials modeling to support advanced manufacturing. Anyone interested would have needed to watch for the release of the actual FOA on Grants.gov, because only the FOA would contain the binding requirements for submission, evaluation criteria, cost share expectations (if any), compliance obligations, and the formal application process.Apply for DE FOA 0001877
- The Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory in the energy sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Notice of Intent to Issue Funding Opportunity Announcement entitled “Innovative Technology Development to Enhance Fossil Power System Operability, Reliability, and Economic Performance”" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 81.089.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jan 09, 2018.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Feb 28, 2018 This is a Notice of Intent to issue Funding Opportunity Announcement DE-FOA-0001854. Applications will not be accepted for the Notice of Intent.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 5 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.
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