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Design Development and System Integration Design Studies for Coal FIRST Concepts

ID: DE-FOA-0002180 • Type: Posted

Description

NOTICE: This is a Draft FOA. Comments and questions on this Draft FOA can be submitted through June 5, 2020. See Section VII of the FOA for submission guidance.

Projects resulting from this Funding Opportunity Announcement will complete the following four tasks for a plant of one of the Coal FIRST power plant concepts listed below: design development, host site evaluation and Environmental Information Volume, an investment case analysis, and a system integration design study (i.e. front-end engineering design study:

Flexible Ultra Supercritical (USC) Coal-Fired Power Plant (AOI 1)

Pressurized Fluidized Bed Combustor with Supercritical Steam Cycle Power Plant (AOI 2)

Hybrid Natural Gas Turbine USC Coal Boiler Power Plant (AOI 3)

Flexible Gasification of Coal and Biomass to Generate Electric Power and a Carbon-Free Hydrogen Co-Product (AOI 4)

The projects resulting from this FOA could be based on retrofit brownfield and,or greenfield applications of Coal FIRST systems.

Overview

Category of Funding
Energy
Environment
Natural Resources
Opportunity Zone Benefits
Science and Technology and other Research and Development
Funding Instruments
Cooperative Agreement
Grant Category
Discretionary
Cost Sharing / Matching Requirement
True
Source
On 5/18/20 National Energy Technology Lab posted grant opportunity DE-FOA-0002180 for Design Development and System Integration Design Studies for Coal FIRST Concepts. The grant will be issued under grant program 81.089 Fossil Energy Research and Development. It is expected that 3 total grants will be made worth between $1 and $81.0 million.

Timing

Posted Date
May 18, 2020, 12:00 a.m. EDT
Closing Date
Aug. 26, 2020, 12:00 a.m. EDT Past Due
Last Updated
Aug. 7, 2020, 9:18 a.m. EDT
Version
4
Archive Date
Jan. 31, 2021

Eligibility

Eligible Applicants
Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"

Award Sizing

Ceiling
$81,000,000
Floor
$1
Estimated Program Funding
Not Provided
Estimated Number of Grants
3

Contacts

Contact
Raelynn Honkus Contract Specialist
Email Description
Contract Specialist
Contact Phone
(412) 386-4992
Additional Information
FedConnect

Documents

Posted documents for DE-FOA-0002180

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Grants awarded through DE-FOA-0002180

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