Energy Storage for Fossil Power Generation (DOE)

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31120
• Date: 04 June 2020
• Published date: 04 June 2020

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Grants alert (cont.)

organizations and intergovernmental organizations,

among others.

Areas: USDA said the FFPr Program has prioritized the

following areas: the Cacao sector, the Cashew sector,

the Vanilla (Spices) sector, Sanitary and Phytosanitary

Standards and the Trade Facilitation Agreement.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# USDA-FAS-10-606-

0700-20-01

Coal FIRST (DOE)

Scope: The Energy Department’s Office of Fossil

Energy seeks applications for the Coal FIRST (Flexible,

Innovative, Resilient, Small, Transformative) Initiative

announcement to support the development of the coal

power plant of the future to provide secure, stable and

reliable power.

Deadline: Aug. 18, 2020.

Funds: $81 million for up to three awards.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: DOE said the four concepts of interest under this

FOA are: (1) Flexible Ultra Supercritical (USC) Coal-Fired

Power Plant, (2) Pressurized Fluidized Bed Combustor

with Supercritical Steam Cycle Power Plant, (3) Hybrid

Natural Gas Turbine/USC Coal Boiler Power Plant and

(4) Flexible Gasication of Coal and Biomass to Generate

Electric Power and a Carbon-Free Hydrogen Co-Product.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# DE-FOA-0002180

Next-generation technologies and eld

validation (DOE)

Scope: The Energy Department’s Advanced

Manufacturing Office seeks applications for the Critical

Materials FOA: Next-Generation Technologies and Field

Validation announcement to address gaps in domestic

supply chains for key critical materials for clean energy

technologies.

Deadline: Aug. 11, 2020.

Funds: $30 million total for up to 10 awards.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: DOE said it seeks projects that can: enable

domestic manufacturing of high-energy-efficiency and

high-energy-density clean energy technologies, diversify

the domestic supply of critical materials, and validate

and demonstrate domestic innovative technologies to

support the transition to U.S. manufacturing.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# DE-FOA-0002322

Energy Storage for Fossil Power Generation

(DOE)

Scope: The Energy Department’s Office of Fossil

Energy seeks applications for the Energy Storage for

Fossil Power Generation announcement to conduct

research and development to advance energy storage

technologies and integrate them with fossil assets to

reduce barriers to widespread deployment.

Deadline: Concept papers, June 16, 2020; proposals,

Aug. 13, 2020.

Funds: $5.9 million total for up to 16 awards of up to

$800,000.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: DOE said areas of interest include projects

that: advance near-term, fossil-fueled, asset-integrated,

energy storage solutions toward commercial deployment;

mature promising mid-Technology Readiness Level

(TRL), component-level, energy storage solutions toward

eventual system integration with fossil-fueled assets; and

develop innovative, low-TRL concepts and technologies

that offer game-changing benets for fossil-fueled assets.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# DE-FOA-0002332

Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical

Education Payment Program (HRSA)

Scope: The Health Resources and Services

Administration seeks applications for the Children’s

Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (GME) Payment

Program announcement to compensate for the disparity

in the level of federal GME funding for freestanding

children’s teaching hospitals versus other types of

teaching hospitals.

Deadline: July 24, 2020.

Funds: $320 million total for up to 59 awards.

Eligibility: Currently eligible hospitals and newly qualied

hospitals. See the complete announcement for details.

Areas: HRSA said funding for GME is primarily provided

by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

and goes to full-service teaching hospitals that serve

primarily adult patients.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# HRSA-21-012

New Innovator Award Program (NIH)

Scope: The National Institutes of Health seeks

applications for the NIH Directors New Innovator

Award Program announcement to support early-stage

investigators of exceptional creativity who propose

highly innovative research projects with the potential

to produce a major impact on broad, important areas

relevant to the mission of NIH.

Deadline: Aug. 21, 2020.

Funds: NIH intends to commit approximately $80 million

for approximately 33 awards in FY2021.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; for-prot

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