Opportunity Information: Apply for DE FOA 0001905
The Department of Energy (DOE), through its Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and specifically the Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO), released this funding opportunity to create a single, large-scale Energy Innovation Hub focused on desalination and U.S. water security. The program is framed as part of DOE's broader Water Security Grand Challenge, which is meant to tackle national water challenges through a mix of prizes, competitions, early-stage research and development, and coordinated programs. In this announcement, "desalination" is used in a broad sense to cover technologies that primarily remove salts from water, not just traditional seawater desalination.
The core goal is to stand up an Energy-Water Desalination Hub that brings together multiple types of partners, including manufacturers, small businesses, universities, national laboratories, and state and local governments. DOE emphasizes the value of public-private consortia where federal funding acts as the catalyst to convene stakeholders, share facilities and expertise, and take on process and technology problems that still carry meaningful scientific or technical uncertainty. In practice, the Hub concept is designed to push coordinated early-stage R&D and related demonstration activities that can move desalination forward in ways that are relevant to energy use in manufacturing and other sectors.
The Hub is expected to be organized across four major technical areas, and DOE intends to fund one application that convincingly covers all four rather than selecting multiple separate awards. Those topic areas are: (1) Materials Research and Development, focused on discovering or improving materials that can enable better salt removal and system performance; (2) New Process Research and Development, aimed at advancing or inventing desalination processes that improve efficiency, cost, robustness, or applicability; (3) Modeling and Simulation Tools, which covers computational approaches to predict, optimize, and scale desalination technologies; and (4) Integrated Data and Analysis, which is about building shared data resources, analytic methods, and cross-cutting insights that tie the Hub's work together and make results more usable by the broader community.
From an administrative standpoint, this opportunity is a discretionary grant competition offered as a cooperative agreement, meaning DOE expects substantial involvement during the project rather than a hands-off grant. The funding opportunity number is DE-FOA-0001905, administered by the DOE Golden Field Office, and it falls under the Energy funding activity category (CFDA 81.086). Eligibility is listed as unrestricted, meaning it is open to any type of entity, subject to any additional clarifications contained in the full FOA.
In terms of scale and competitiveness, DOE set an award ceiling of $45,000,000 and anticipated making exactly one award. The FOA was created on December 13, 2018, with an original closing date of May 7, 2019. A mandatory concept paper was required ahead of the full application, due February 7, 2019, which signals that DOE wanted to screen for fit and competitiveness early in the process before applicants invested in full proposals.
DOE also scheduled an informational webinar on January 7, 2019 at 3 PM Eastern. The webinar was described as procedural rather than substantive: attendance was not required, it would not affect scoring, it would cover standard EERE and FOA process questions, and DOE stated it would not present new information or take questions during the session. The full announcement and submission instructions were hosted on the EERE Exchange website, and applications had to be submitted through that platform. Applicants were required to register and create an account in EERE Exchange, with a user guide available online for navigating the submission process and directions in the FOA for where to send content questions versus technical submission questions.Apply for DE FOA 0001905
- The Department of Energy, Golden Field Office in the energy sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Energy-Water Desalination Hub" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 81.086.
- This funding opportunity was created on Dec 13, 2018.
- Applicants must submit their applications by May 07, 2019 A mandatory Concept Paper is due February 7, 2019.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $45,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 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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