Notice of Intent to Issue Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) number DE-FOA-0003344 entitled SuperTruck Charge

Background
The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) intends to issue, on behalf of the Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO), a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) entitled “SuperTruck Charge”. The anticipated FOA will advance the Administration’s goals to decarbonize transportation and to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. The Department of Energy is committed to pushing the frontiers of science and engineering, catalyzing clean energy jobs through research, development, demonstration, and deployment (RDD&D), and ensuring environmental justice and inclusion of underserved communities.

Grant Details
The FOA will seek research, development, and demonstration of concepts for delivering high power charging, load management, and delivery of grid services that alleviate grid capacity challenges at a large-scale charging installation for medium duty and heavy-duty (MD/HD) trucks through optimal design of charging infrastructure and operations. It will focus on two sub-topics: Truck Depots concentrated near hubs, ports, warehouses, and other logistics operations; and Truck Stops/Travel Centers along key freight corridors.

Approaches of interest include load sharing, peak shaving, delayed charging, bi-directional power-flow, utilization of on-site distributed energy resources, coordination with other on-site loads, and other approaches that optimize operation and integration with the grid. The estimated period of performance for each award will be approximately 36-48 months.

Eligibility Requirements
Eligible applicants should register in EERE eXCHANGE at https://eere-eXCHANGE.energy.gov/, register with the System for Award Management (SAM) at https://www.sam.gov/, register in FedConnect at https://www.fedconnect.net/, and register in Grants.gov to receive automatic updates when Amendments to a FOA are posted.

Period of Performance
The estimated period of performance for each award will be approximately 36-48 months.

Grant Value
EERE envisions awarding multiple financial assistance awards in the form of cooperative agreements. The total value of the grant is not specified.