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The Department of Energy (DOE) obligates over $20 billion each fiscal year in contracts and financial assistance agreements.

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act)


Learn more about the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 at Recovery.gov.

Learn more about what the Department of Energy is doing regarding the Recovery Act by accessing the Department of Energy's Recovery Act web site.

The Department will submit business opportunity notices to the Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) and Grants.gov web sites, as required by the Recovery Act, and will clearly indicate which notices are related to the Recovery Act.  In order to respond to these notices, contractors and/or recipients will need to register with both the Deparment of Energy's e-Center and FedConnect as soon as possible.

The Department of Energy is currently moving to the Strategic Integrated Procurement Enterprise System (STRIPES), which is an automated procurement and financial assistance system. FedConnect, a communications portal between contractors/recipients and STRIPES, will replace the Department of Energy's e-Center, and will be used to retrieve your submission. 

During the transition to STRIPES, including responding to opportunities provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, please register with both the Department of Energy's e-Center and FedConnect to ensure you can submit your proposal, bid, or application to either site.


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EERE Financial Opportunities
Financial opportunities and solicitations for business, industry, and universities from DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE).
  • SunShot Incubator Program - Soft Cost Reduction
    Funding Opportunity Number: DE-FOA-0000607
    Funding Organization: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
    Open Date: 2011-11-15
    Close Date: 2012-03-05
    Funds Available:
    Description:

    DOE is supporting the development of tools and approaches that will reduce balance of system non-hardware costs for solar energy systems. These soft costs—expenses associated with permitting, financing, interconnection, and inspection—can account for approximately half of the total expense of photovoltaic installations.

    As part of the SunShot Incubator program, this funding opportunity is designed to help small businesses and entrepreneurs develop data-driven tools, innovative programs, and streamlined processes that will make solar more accessible for Americans. This solicitation builds on the Incubator program's proven success with photovoltaic technologies to begin targeting market barriers. By addressing all sectors of the solar energy economy, the SunShot Initiative works to reduce the total installed cost of photovoltaic systems.

  • SunShot Concentrating Solar Power Research and Development
    Funding Opportunity Number: DE-FOA-0000595
    Funding Organization: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
    Open Date: 2011-10-25
    Close Date: 2012-02-07
    Funds Available:
    Description:

    The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) seeks to fund revolutionary applied scientific research that develops highly disruptive Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) technologies that will meet 6 cents per kWh cost target by the end of the decade. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for SunShot Concentrating Solar Power Research and Development intends to support research into technologies that have the potential for much higher efficiency, lower cost, and/or more reliable performance than existing commercial and near-commercial CSP systems and their expected incremental progress in future years.

    As part of the SunShot Initiative, this applied research program is intended to demonstrate and prove new concepts in the collector, receiver, and power cycle subsystems, including associated hardware and manufacturing processes. These developments should lead to subsequent system integration, engineering scale-up, and eventual commercial production for electricity generation applications. The SunShot CSP program is designed to look beyond incremental near-term innovation and explore transformative concepts with the potential to break through performance barriers as known today, such as efficiency and temperature limitations. These goals support the mission of the DOE SunShot Initiative.

    There are four topics to which an application may be submitted under this FOA:

    • Topic 1: Advanced Collectors
    • Topic 2: Advanced Receivers
    • Topic 3: Advanced Power Cycles
    • Topic 4: Seedling CSP Concepts