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DE-FOA-0003373: NOFO: DE-FOA-0003373, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), Provision 41007 (b)(2), Wind Turbine Technology Recycling

Closed Closed February 11, 2025 Opportunity DE-FOA-0003373 ☆ 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 2024.

• Award ceiling$8.0 million
• Award floor$2.0 million
• Total funding$20.0 million
• Expected awards7
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to any type of organization.

• 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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Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Renewable Energy Research and Development awards averaged $2.8 million; this notice allows up to $8.0 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (30% over five years) went to colleges and universities.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

NOFO: DE-FOA-0003373, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), Provision 41007 (b)(2), Wind Turbine Technology Recycling Mod 0001: The purpose of this modification is to: 1. Added information regarding cost share of Tribes and Tribal Nations pursuant to EERE's uniform cost share reduction. The activities to be funded under this NOFO support BIL sections 41007(b)(2) and the broader government-wide approach to strengthen critical domestic manufacturing and supply chains and to maximize the benefits of the clean energy transition as the nation works to curb the climate crisis, empower workers, and advance environmental justice. This BIL section, through reference to section 3003(b)(4) of the Energy Act of 2020, addresses: • Research and development projects to create innovative and practical approaches to increase the reuse and recycling of wind energy technologies, including— • by increasing the efficiency and cost effectiveness of the recovery of raw materials from wind energy technology components and systems • by minimizing potential environmental impacts from the recovery and disposal processes; • by advancing technologies and processes for the disassembly and recycling of wind energy devices; • by developing alternative materials, designs, manufacturing processes, and other aspects of wind energy technologies and the disassembly and resource recovery process that enable efficient, cost effective, and environmentally responsible disassembly of, and resource recovery from, wind energy technologies; and • strategies to increase consumer acceptance of, and participation in, the recycling of wind energy technologies To view the NOFO, visit EERE Exchange at https://eere-exchange.energy.gov

Category: Energy.

Applying now

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

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