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DE-FOA-0003137: The purpose of this requisition is to initiate a Notice of Intent (NOI) for the 2023 Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) titled “WASTE: Waste Analysis and Strategies for Transportation End-uses” (DE-FOA-0003072).

Closed Closed December 15, 2023 Opportunity DE-FOA-0003137 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is open now: Accelerating Scale-up and Pre-piloting of Emerging Chemical Technologies (ASPECT) (DE-FOA-0003647). Status: Closes December 1, 2026 (24 days left). It is in our archive of Golden Field Office notices from 2023.

• Award ceiling$1
• Cost sharingRequired
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement, Grant

Key dates

Who can apply

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

Non-profit and for-profit transit authorities. Intrastate government agencies and instrumentalities. Non-profit organizations that are not 501(c)(4) organizations engaged in lobbying activities.

More grants for nonprofits, state and local governments, tribes.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Renewable Energy Research and Development awards averaged $2.8 million; this notice allows up to $1 per award.
• Most of the program's money (30% over five years) went to colleges and universities.
• The notice requires cost sharing or matching funds, so you must contribute part of the project cost.

What the grant funds

The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) intends to issue, on behalf of the Bioenergy Technologies Office and the Vehicles Technologies Office, a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) entitled “WASTE: Waste Analysis and Strategies for Transportation End-uses”. For many communities, organic waste streams present a variety of economic, environmental, and social sustainability challenges. These waste streams include food waste, municipal wastewater sludges, animal manure, and fats, oils, and greases. There are significant costs associated with management of organic waste, including treatment, stabilization, hauling, and disposal costs or tipping fees. These waste streams also represent major sources of greenhouse gas emissions and contribute to other environmental issues including air and water quality degradation. Increasingly, State and local laws and regulations are requiring that organic waste streams be diverted from landfills, necessitating the implementation of new processing strategies and novel business models to meet these requirements. Municipal entities and local transit authorities also have significant local demand for the energy that can be derived from these waste streams. Waste-derived biogas or renewable natural gas[1] (RNG) are being used to fuel bus fleets and trash collection vehicles or produce hydrogen for hydrogen-fueled vehicles. These opportunities are often community-specific; thus this FOA is intended to provide funding to help communities and transit authorities realize these or similar synergies between waste infrastructure and sustainable transportation needs. Permissible fuels from this FOA could include renewable natural gas, partially upgraded biogas, hydrogen, biocrude, renewable diesel, renewable di-methyl-ether, or other renewable fuels. Specific eligible fuels will be identified in the final FOA. [1] Note: unless otherwise indicated, for purposes of this FOA, “renewable natural gas” is biogas that has been upgraded to pipeline standard gas and/or another pipeline-transportable, fungible standard. Recognizing that communities may be at different states in their planning efforts, this FOA seeks a phased approach to address the challenges noted above. Topic Area 1 will support Feasibility Study Development, to include such activities as feasibility studies, identification of transportation use cases and sustainability indicator baselining.

Category: Energy, Transportation.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, DE-FOA-0003647, which is open now.

The notice on Grants.gov keeps its full text and attachments, which is useful for planning a resubmission.