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DE-FOA-0002452 Funding Opportunity Announcement: Industrial Assessment Centers

Closed Closed April 22, 2021 Opportunity DE-FOA-0002452 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is open now: Notice of Intent to Issue NOFO DE-FOA-0003649: Leveraging Domestic Infrastructure and Resources to Unleash Alternative Chemicals, Fuels and Feedstocks (DE-FOA-0003648). Status: Closes April 26, 2027 (170 days left). It is in our archive of Golden Field Office notices from 2021.

• Award ceiling$2
• Award floor$1
• Total funding$40
• Expected awards40
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to colleges and universities.

• Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
• Private institutions of higher education

More grants for colleges and universities.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Information Dissemination, Outreach, Training and Technical Analysis/Assistance awards averaged $4.0 million; this notice allows up to $2 per award.
• Most of the program's money (68% over five years) went to state and local governments.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

MODIFICATION 000002: The purpose of this modification is to: Update the information in Section III.F. An entity may only submit one Full Application to this FOA for Topic Area 1, and only one Full Application for Topic Area 2. If an applicant is seeking to apply for funding under both topic areas, the applicant must submit one Full Application for Topic Area 1, and a separate Application for Topic Area 2. See Section IV.D.i. Full Application Content Requirements and Section I.B. Topic Areas for more information. MODIFICATION 000001: The purpose of this modification is to: add a Submission Deadline for Reviewer Comments to the table on page 1; edit the first paragraph in Section III.F., page 28, to clarify that only one application is allowed per institution; and fix missing format issue of labeling “Funding Opportunity Description” on page 7 as the start of section I. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is being issued by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO). The U.S. manufacturing sector uses 25% of the nation’s energy and has an annual energy bill of more than $150 billion. Efficiency improvements in manufacturing not only benefit the manufacturing sector, but also impact the energy efficiency of products used throughout the economy. AMO's technical partnerships support the development, deployment and validation of technologies and practices including increasing the productivity and competitiveness of American manufacturers and other large energy-using facilities and continuing the education and development of the US workforce of energy professionals. The Federal Government has been funding the Industrial Assessment Center (IAC)1 program, formerly called the Energy Analysis and Diagnostic Center program, since 1976. The goal of the IAC program is twofold: first, to help US manufacturing competitiveness by providing assessments and recommendations for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) on energy efficiency, productivity, sustainability and competitiveness – including measuring the impacts of these recommendations on reducing greenhouse gas emissions; and second, to address a growing shortage of engineering professionals with applied energy and manufacturing-related skills by training a diverse cross-section of engineering students through hands-on involvement in these assessments. This is a restricted eligibility announcement.

Category: Energy.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, DE-FOA-0003648, which is open now.

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