DOE Recovery Funds Summary
I. Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy ($16.8B)
A. Weatherization ($5B)
1. State of Washington receives $120.5M
B. State Energy ($3.1B)
C. Advanced Batteries ($2B)
1. Recovery Act – Transportation Electrification (DE-FOA-0000026)
2. Recovery Act - Electric Drive Vehicle Battery and Component Manufacturing Initiative (DE-FOA-0000028)
D. Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy ($6.7B)
1. $800M – Biomass Projects
2. $400M geothermal activities & projects
3. $50M – research to increase the efficiency of info & communication technology & improve standards.
II. Smart Grid Elec
A. FOA for Development of Smart Grid Info Clearinghouse (81.122 CFDA)
“electricity delivery system that is integrated with modern digital and information technology to provide improved reliability, security, efficiency and ultimately lower cost to the user”.
III. Fossil Energy – Coal - $3.4B
A. Existing Fossil Energy R&D – ($1B)
B. Clean Coal Power Initiative FOA ($800M)
C. Industrial Carbon Capture & Energy Efficiency Improvement projects ($1.52B)
1. competitive solicitation for innovative concepts for beneficial CO2 reuse.
D. Competitive solicitation geologic formation site characteristic activities-CO2 sequestration in geological formations ($50M)
E. Geologic CO2 sequestration training & research grants ($20M)
F. Program Direction Funding ($10M)
IV. Environmental Management ($6B)
A. Environmental Cleanup
Projects identified will focus on accelerating cleanup of soil and groundwater, transportation and disposal of waste and cleaning and demolishing former weapons complex facilities.
V. Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E)($400M)
A. Funding to establish ARPA with legislatively directed mission to support novel early-stage energy research, development of techniques research and development of manufacturing processes, and coordination for technology demonstration and facilitation of technology transfer. Currently ARPA-E does not exist, so a director and staff will have to be put in place to determine and execute programs with the stimulus funding.
VI. Office of Science ($1.2B) - Major construction, laboratory infrastructure and research efforts
A. Energy Frontier Research Centers competitive grants - $277 million
Purpose of energy frontier research centers is to tackle our Energy grand challenges…. http://www.sc.doe.gov/BES/brochures/files/EFRC_brochure.pdf
2008 RFA for Energy Frontier Research Centers – review of proposals concluded 02/09. $100M to FY09 funding -260 applications received
B. Core research, providing support for Grad students, postdocs & PhD’s - $90 million
1. Areas mentioned: High energy & nuclear physics to biofuels, solar energy, solid-state lighting, superconductivity, electrical transmission & storage, carbon sequestration, combustion, environmental clean-up, materials science…
C. OS National Labs – construction, infrastructure, equip acquisition & research ($830.2M)
1. Pacific Northwest Ntl Lab (PNNL) gets $ 124 million
a. Environmental Molecular Sciences Lab-equip. acquisition- $60M
b. ARM Climate Research Facility-equip. acquisition - $60M
c. Energy Conservation Projects - equip upgrades on PNNL campus - $4M
OTHER PROGRAMS through ARRA
Innovative Technologies Loan Guarantees ($6B)
