Opportunity Information: Apply for DE FOA 0002363
The Department of Energy (DOE), through the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and its Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO), released a Notice of Opportunity for Technical Assistance (NOTA) titled "Improving Hydropower's Value through Informed Decision Making" (Funding Opportunity Number DE-FOA-0002363). Rather than offering grant dollars, this opportunity is designed to connect selected hydropower stakeholders with specialized expertise and capabilities from DOE National Laboratories to help them answer practical planning and operational questions in a changing power system. The overall focus is on helping hydropower owners, utilities, and system operators make better-informed decisions about how hydropower can be operated, planned, and valued as grid conditions evolve.
The NOTA has three main objectives. First, it aims to provide hydropower decision-makers, including utilities and system operators, with access to National Lab modeling and analysis skills to address real-world challenges and capture new opportunities on their systems. Second, it is intended to validate and demonstrate National Lab-developed modeling approaches, analytical methods, and tools created under the HydroWIRES initiative, so those tools can be tested against real use cases and ultimately be more useful to the broader hydropower and power-system community. Third, it seeks to expand collective understanding of the roles hydropower can play under future grid conditions, including scenarios that go beyond what many planners and operators typically consider today, such as higher penetrations of variable renewable energy, more complex grid flexibility needs, and changing market or operational requirements.
WPTO anticipated selecting up to six recipients for this technical assistance. Each recipient would receive assistance valued at up to $400,000, but it is important to understand what that valuation means in practice: the DOE funds a technical assistance team (generally National Lab staff and resources) to perform agreed-upon analysis and support work for the selected recipients. The selected organizations do not receive cash awards, and this is not a funding mechanism for buying equipment or software. In other words, there is no "award ceiling" in the usual grant sense because money is not disbursed to recipients; instead, DOE covers the costs of the experts doing the work as part of the technical assistance package.
Because this is technical assistance rather than financial assistance, recipients are not required to provide a cash cost share. However, successful projects depend on recipients contributing in-kind support, especially by supplying relevant data and background information, participating in technical discussions, and providing critical review and feedback on results. That kind of engagement is necessary for the National Lab team to produce useful, credible outputs that reflect real operating constraints and decision contexts.
Eligibility is listed as unrestricted, meaning the opportunity is broadly open to many types of entities, subject to any additional eligibility clarifications provided in the full NOTA. The issuing agency is the Department of Energy, Golden Field Office, and the opportunity is categorized under energy (CFDA number 81.087). The original timeline listed a creation date of October 13, 2020, with an original closing date of January 29, 2021, and DOE noted it expected to make up to six selections.
The announcement also includes standard federal disclaimers. DOE is not responsible for applicant costs related to preparing or submitting an application. It also reserves the right to provide technical assistance in full, in part, or not at all, and to select any, all, or none of the applications, depending on the quality of submissions, program priorities, and available resources. Full application instructions, points of contact for questions, and submission details are provided through EERE-Exchange at https://eere-exchange.energy.gov, which serves as the official platform for the complete NOTA documentation and any related updates.Apply for DE FOA 0002363
- The Department of Energy, Golden Field Office in the energy sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Notice of Opportunity for Technical Assistance (NOTA): Improving Hydropower’s Value through Informed Decision Making" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 81.087.
- This funding opportunity was created on Oct 13, 2020.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jan 29, 2021. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 6 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: 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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