Closed · DE-FOA-0002180 · CFDA 81.089 · Discretionary

Design Development and System Integration Design Studies for Coal FIRST Concepts

Federal grant opportunity posted by National Energy Technology Laboratory, cataloged on Grants.gov.

$1-$81M
Award range
Closed
Status
August 26, 2020
Close date
3
Expected awards

The verdict

Design Development and System Integration Design Studies for Coal FIRST Concepts is a closed discretionary listing from National Energy Technology Laboratory that offered $1 -- $81,000,000 across 3 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 530 other opportunities from National Energy Technology Laboratory.

$1-$81M
award range
Closed
application status
3
expected awards
81.089
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

Design Development and System Integration Des… is closed (last close August 26, 2020). The parent program page for CFDA 81.089 is the reliable place to catch re-announcements. National Energy Technology Laboratory still indexes 530 other opportunities here.

According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.

Deadline tracker

Application window closed

Closed August 26, 2020

Posted May 18 Closes Aug 26

Expected Awards

3

Instrument

Cooperative Agreement

Cost Sharing

Required

Description

Modification 000001 to issue the final FOA.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.

Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · DE-FOA-0002180

Grants.gov marks Design Development and System Integration Des… with a catch-all / unrestricted eligibility code (Unrestricted / see official listing). Read the official announcement text for the real applicant filter — the code alone is not a door list. Applicant cost-sharing is required on the Grants.gov extract. Instrument: Cooperative Agreement. Funding-activity codes span Energy · Environment · Natural Resources · Opportunity Zones · Science and Technology / R&D (EN;ENV;NR;OZ;ST). This eligibility-code string dominates the National Energy Technology Laboratory book (410 peers, 77% of 531).

Code 99
Unrestricted / see official listing

Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.

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Parent Grant Program

CFDA 81.089

Fossil Energy Research and Development

U.S. Department of Energy

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Agency Contact

Raelynn Honkus Contract Specialist Phone 412-386-4992

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What to do next

Design Development and System Integration Des… is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.

  • Parent CFDA 81.089 may publish future NOFOs under the same assistance listing. Open program
  • Fossil Energy Research and Development indexes 3 Grants.gov listings in this extract. Program profile
  • National Energy Technology Laboratory lists 530 other indexed opportunities on PlainGrants. Agency catalog

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