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DE-FOA-0002870: 2023 Funding Opportunity Announcement for Energy Future Grants (EFG) Creating a Community-Led Energy Future

Closed Closed November 10, 2023 Opportunity DE-FOA-0002870 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$500,000
• Award floor$1
• Total funding$27.0 million
• Expected awards50
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to state and local governments and tribes.

• State governments
• County governments
• City or township governments
• Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)

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Is this a realistic fit?

• Past State Energy Program awards averaged $19.0 million; this notice allows up to $500,000 per award.
• Most of the program's money (99% over five years) went to state and local governments.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

FOA Modification 000002: The purpose of this modification is to update the submission deadline for Full Applications, and expected dates for DOE Selection Notifications and Award Negotiations. FOA Modification 000001: The purpose of this modification is to update FOA Section VI.A.i's Criterion 1 from 20% to 40%, to better correspond to the weighting used in the Project Narrative. The Criterion requirements and Project Narrative requirements themselves were not modified. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Energy Future Grants (EFG) provides $27 million in financial assistance to support local, state, and tribal government-led partnership efforts that will advance clean energy program innovation. EFG seeks to enhance energy affordable and access for communities, ensuring the broad benefits of a clean energy economy—including heath, economic development and jobs and emissions reductions—flow to disadvantaged communities. EFG will provide support for at least 50 multi jurisdictional teams. Teams should be ideally comprised of 3-4 or more state, local, and/or tribal government partners joining together on a planning project. Multi-jurisdictional teams (e.g. cities and state, tribes and cities, states, cities and tribes, etc.) are encouraged to also partner with community benefit organizations. Additional partners can including academia, think tanks and/or utilities positioned to turn innovative (novel or early action) ideas into solutions that address barriers to clean energy deployment. EFG plans will provide direction for ensuring measurable benefits reach communities and support Justice 40, which directs 40% of the overall benefits of certain federal investments to flow to disadvantaged communities. EFG project can including innovative planning efforts in the power, transportation, and/or building sectors. A successful project will have equitable program innovation and seek to leverage DOE and other resources to speed and scale deployment of best practices by region or nationwide. Visit the Clean Energy Infrastructure Funding Opportunity Exchange website at https://infrastructure-exchange.energy.gov/Default.aspx to view the complete FOA Document.

Category: Energy.

Applying now

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