2023 Funding Opportunity Announcement for Energy Future Grants (EFG) Creating a Community-Led Energy Future
Posted by Golden Field Office
Opportunity snapshot. This Grants.gov announcement — 2023 Funding Opportunity Announcement for Energy Future Grants (EFG) Creating a Community-Led Energy Future — is cataloged under number DE-FOA-0002870 and tied to CFDA assistance listing 81.041, posted by Golden Field Office. Grants.gov currently shows the opportunity as closed, first posted on July 24, 2023 and last updated on September 26, 2023. The funding category is Discretionary, delivered as a cooperative agreement.
Award economics. The award range on file is $1 -- $500,000. The agency has projected $27.0 million in total estimated funding for this announcement. It expects to issue 50 awards. If the agency funds the expected 50 awards from the $27.0 million estimated pool, the average award works out to roughly $540,000. Cost sharing is not required, so applicants do not need to commit matching funds to be competitive on this opportunity. Federal award ranges are often upper bounds; actual allocations reflect program appropriations, the strength of the applicant pool, and the evaluation committee's scoring.
Deadline and action path. This opportunity closed on November 10, 2023. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number, so monitoring the parent program page is the most reliable way to catch re-announcements. Every Grants.gov submission requires an active SAM.gov registration and a Unique Entity ID. Review the Eligibility section below carefully — federal eligibility categories (nonprofit, state or local government, tribal, individual, educational institution, small business) have distinct registration and reporting requirements. Pre-application outreach to the listed agency contact is permitted and often welcomed — it helps clarify scope and scoring priorities.
Award Range
$1 -- $500,000
Close Date
November 10, 2023
Posted
July 24, 2023
Est. Total Funding
$27,000,000
Expected Awards
50
Instrument
Cooperative Agreement
Description
FOA Modification 000002: The purpose of this modification is to update the submission deadline for Full Applications, and expected dates for DOE Selection Notifications and Award Negotiations. FOA Modification 000001: The purpose of this modification is to update FOA Section VI.A.i's Criterion 1 from 20% to 40%, to better correspond to the weighting used in the Project Narrative. The Criterion requirements and Project Narrative requirements themselves were not modified. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Energy Future Grants (EFG) provides $27 million in financial assistance to support local, state, and tribal government-led partnership efforts that will advance clean energy program innovation. EFG seeks to enhance energy affordable and access for communities, ensuring the broad benefits of a clean energy economy—including heath, economic development and jobs and emissions reductions—flow to disadvantaged communities. EFG will provide support for at least 50 multi jurisdictional teams. Teams should be ideally comprised of 3-4 or more state, local, and/or tribal government partners joining together on a planning project. Multi-jurisdictional teams (e.g. cities and state, tribes and cities, states, cities and tribes, etc.) are encouraged to also partner with community benefit organizations. Additional partners can including academia, think tanks and/or utilities positioned to turn innovative (novel or early action) ideas into solutions that address barriers to clean energy deployment. EFG plans will provide direction for ensuring measurable benefits reach communities and support Justice 40, which directs 40% of the overall benefits of certain federal investments to flow to disadvantaged communities. EFG project can including innovative planning efforts in the power, transportation, and/or building sectors. A successful project will have equitable program innovation and seek to leverage DOE and other resources to speed and scale deployment of best practices by region or nationwide. Visit the Clean Energy Infrastructure Funding Opportunity Exchange website at https://infrastructure-exchange.energy.gov/Default.aspx to view the complete FOA Document.
Eligibility
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Official Listing on Grants.gov
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Parent Grant Program
State Energy Program
U.S. Department of Energy
Agency Contact
FOA Mailbox <br/>S3Exchangehelp@hq.doe.gov.
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