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Document Type:
Modification to Previous
Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number:
DE-FOA-0000493
Opportunity Category:
Discretionary
Posted Date:
Apr 08, 2011
Creation Date:
May 10, 2011
Original Closing Date for Applications:
Jun 09, 2011
Letter of Intent Due Date: May 9, 2011 11:59pm Eastern Time
Current Closing Date for Applications:
Jun 09, 2011
Letter of Intent Due Date: May 9, 2011 11:59pm Eastern Time
Archive Date:
Funding Instrument Type:
Grant
Category of Funding Activity:
Energy
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards:
Estimated Total Program Funding:
$0
Award Ceiling:
$0
Award Floor:
$0
CFDA Number(s):
81.087
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Renewable Energy Research and Development
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:
Yes
Eligible Applicants
Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"
Additional Information on Eligibility:
Agency Name
Golden Field Office
Description
The purpose of amendment 001 is to:
A) Update the Cost Impact tables in Section I Funding Opportunity Description, on pages 9-11, to clarify the cost components for electrical and hardware labor.
All other parts of the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) remain unchanged.
The areas which have changed with this modification are highlighted within the FOA.
The objective of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to significantly reduce the balance of system hardware cost component of Photovoltaic (PV) systems. This FOA directly supports the goals of the Department of Energys (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Solar Energy Technologies Program (SETP) and the SunShot Initiative, which has a goal to reduce the total cost (including installer margin) of solar energy systems by about 75 percent before the end of the decade. Under this FOA, the DOE SETP program is requesting applications for research, development, and demonstration of new components and system designs or the development of new building code language to overcome scientific, technological, and engineering barriers to achieving safe, very low cost, and high reliability balance of system hardware. While this FOA is meant to mainly address hardware and labor costs and not soft costs, advancements in hardware that may result in lower
soft costs (permitting, site preparation, etc.) are encouraged.
There will be four topics to which an application may be submitted under this FOA:
Topic 1: Transformational Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) Modules
Topic 2: Roof and Ground Mount Innovations
Topic 3: Transformational Photovoltaic System Designs
Topic 4: Development of New Wind Load Codes for PV Systems
The full Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is posted on the EERE eXCHANGE website at http://eere.energy.gov/financing/exchange. Applications must be submitted through the EERE eXCHANGE website to be considered for award. The applicant must first register and create an account on the EERE eXCHANGE website. A user Guide for the EERE eXCHANGE can be found on the EERE website at: http://eere.energy.gov/financing/exchange/Manuals.aspx after logging in to the system.
Information on where to submit questions regarding the content of the announcement and where to submit questions regarding submission of applications is found in the full FOA posted on the EERE eXCHANGE website.
If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement
electronically, please contact:
Christina Raines, Grants and Agreements Specialist pvbos@go.doe.gov
pvbos@go.doe.gov
Synopsis Modification History
The following files represent the modifications to this synopsis
with the changes noted within the documents. The list of files is
arranged from newest to oldest with the newest file representing the
current synopsis. Changed sections from the previous document are shown
in a light grey background.
