The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is issuing this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) to invest in innovative research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) projects that accelerate the large-scale development and deployment of renewable energy to support an equitable transition to a decarbonized electricity system by 2035 and net-zero emissions economy by 2050.
The goal of this funding opportunity is to develop the tools and processes to help a broad set of stakeholders including utilities, local governments, and community-based organizations; understand the implications and participate in the development of locally-based energy generation in their community. To achieve this goal, applicants will assimilate data from a variety of sources into novel tools, “dashboards,” or other applications that will assess the impacts and tradeoffs, including potential benefits and challenges of locally-based energy generation. These tools should be accessible and easy-to-use to a wide array of stakeholders that are not necessarily electric power system experts. Achievement of this goal should accelerate deployment of renewable energy towards an equitable de-carbonized grid, and it will come through pursuit of several concurrent objectives in successful system design.
DOE is aware of users experiencing issues opening the SF424 Application for Federal Assistance document. The document was updated to reflect a change from requiring a Duns and Bradstreet (DUNS) number to a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI). If you see an error message when clicking the link, you need to take the following steps:
1. Click the link and save a copy of the .pdf to your desktop. It will save even though there is an error message. 2. Open Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader on your computer. 3. In Adobe, Click File, Open and select the SF-424 Application form on your desktop.
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