Small Innovative Projects in Solar: Concentrating Solar Power and Photovoltaics
Funding Agency:
- Department of Energy
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) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO). This FOA will advance the Biden Administration’s goals to achieve carbon-pollution-free electricity by 2035 and “deliver an equitable, clean energy future, and put the United States on a path to achieve net-zero emissions, economy-wide, by no later than 2050”2 to the benefit of all Americans.
This FOA supports the administration goals laid out above by helping achieve SETO’s research goals for concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) and photovoltaic (PV) technologies, while advancing and accelerating market adoption of solar technologies. Small Innovative Projects in Solar (SIPS) is an agile funding vehicle for SETO investments with two major aims: to investigate high-risk ideas that address a major technology barrier or open the possibility of a novel concept, and to attract new entrants into the applied solar Research and Development (R&D) community.
Building a clean and equitable energy economy and addressing the climate crisis is a top priority of the Biden Administration. The Department of Energy is committed to pushing the frontiers of science and engineering, catalyzing clean energy jobs through research, development, demonstration, and deployment (RDD&D), and ensuring environmental justice and inclusion of underserved communities.
The R&D activities to be funded under this FOA will support the government-wide approach to the climate crisis by driving the innovation that can lead to the deployment of clean energy technologies, which are critical for climate protection.
EERE anticipates making approximately 14-24 awards under this FOA. EERE may issue one, multiple, or no awards. Individual awards may vary between $250,000 (Topic Area 2) and $400,000 (Topic Area 1).
EERE expects to make a total of approximately $6.5 million of federal funding available for new awards under this FOA, subject to the availability of appropriated funds.
3/6/2024 5:00 p.m. ET
All questions and answers related to this FOA will be posted on EERE eXCHANGE at: https://eere-exchange.energy.gov.