Closed · DE-FOA-0003136 · CFDA 81.086 · Discretionary
Connected Communities 2.0: Innovations to Manage Growing Transportation, Building, and Industrial Loads to the Grid
Federal grant opportunity posted by Golden Field Office, cataloged on Grants.gov.
- $3M-$6M
- Award range
- Closed
- Status
- October 16, 2024
- Close date
- -
- Expected awards
The verdict
Connected Communities 2.0: Innovations to Manage Growing Transportation, Building, and Industrial Loads to the Grid is a closed discretionary listing from Golden Field Office that offered $3,000,000 -- $6,000,000. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number.
- $3M-$6M
- award range
- Closed
- application status
- 81.086
- CFDA program
Opportunity snapshot. This Grants.gov announcement - Connected Communities 2.0: Innovations to Manage Growing Transportation, Building, and Industrial Loads to the Grid - is cataloged under number DE-FOA-0003136 and tied to CFDA assistance listing 81.086, posted by Golden Field Office. Grants.gov currently shows the opportunity as closed, first posted on July 22, 2024 and last updated on October 10, 2024. The funding category is Discretionary, delivered as a cooperative agreement.
Award economics. The award range on file is $3,000,000 -- $6,000,000. The agency has projected $65.0 million in total estimated funding for this announcement. Cost sharing or matching funds are required, meaning applicants must contribute a portion of the project budget from non-federal sources, factor this into your financial plan before drafting the proposal. 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 October 16, 2024. 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. Before acting on the deadline or award figures above, verify them directly on the official Grants.gov listing, amendments can change dates and amounts after this page was last refreshed.
Award Range
$3,000,000 -- $6,000,000
Close Date
October 16, 2024
Posted
July 22, 2024
Est. Total Funding
$65,000,000
Instrument
Cooperative Agreement
Cost Sharing
Required
Description
This modification extends the Full Application deadline from October 10, 2024 to October 16, 2024 due to natural disaster, Hurricane Milton, impacting the ability of applicants to complete and submit an application by the deadline. The “Connected Communities 2.0: Innovations to Manage Growing Transportation, Building, and Industrial Loads to the Grid” Funding Opportunity (FOA) issued by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy is designed to address major new loads from transportation, industry, and buildings on the electric grid by providing new tools for users, planners, and operators of the electric grid. This FOA has two major topical areas: Connected Communities 2.0, focused on grid edge technical measures in buildings, industry, and transportation to prepare the electric grid for these new loads, and improve the resilience of customers and the grid; and Smart Charge Management (SCM), focused on various unique urban, suburban, and rural use cases to build confidence in SCM as an effective approach for electric vehicles (EVs) to provide flexibility and value to the electric grid. The learnings from these projects should enable electric system planners and operators, strategic planners, regulators such as Public Utility Commissions (PUCs), and other stakeholders to understand and plan for new load growth and peak loads driven by electrification, growth in manufacturing, and new computing developments; and to plan for physical and cyber threats to reliability and resilience, while keeping costs affordable for customers and ratepayers. To achieve this end, the cohort of awarded projects will pursue three primary goals. First, the cohort will demonstrate how smart and coordinated management of EVs and other distributed energy resources (DERs), including the integration of efficiency, smart electrical panels, solar, heat pumps, controls, EV charging, and storage can together provide grid support, reduce system costs, and improve the economics of customer technology adoption, at a scale sufficient to enable confidence in wide-scale adoption. The second goal is to demonstrate approaches that enable acceptance by utilities, PUCs, and communities of smart charge management, grid-edge technical measures and innovative planning strategies as valid methods towards right sizing investments in the distribution system. The third and final major goal for the cohort is to demonstrate approaches towards improved resilience for communities, end-use customers, and the overall grid in the face of growing loads, extreme weather events, cyber threats, and increasing reliance on the electric grid through the use of grid edge technical measures. This FOA will award an estimated $65M, and is a cross office FOA co-funded by BTO, VTO, SETO, IEDO, GTO, and OE. Modification 0001: The purpose of this modification is to extend the Full Application deadline from October 10, 2024 to October 16, 2024 due to natural disaster, Hurricane Milton, impacting applicant’s ability to complete and submit an application by the deadline. The full Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is posted on the EERE eXCHANGE website at https://eere-exchange.energy.gov. Applications must be submitted through the EERE eXCHANGE website to be considered for award. The applicant must first register and create an account on the EERE eXCHANGE website. A User Guide for the EERE eXCHANGE can be found on the EERE website https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/Manuals.aspx after logging in to the system. Information on where to submit questions regarding the content of the announcement and where to submit questions regarding submission of applications is found in the full FOA posted on the EERE Exchange website, https://eere-exchange.energy.gov. Please see full announcement at: https://ie-exchange.energy.gov/
Eligibility
Grants.gov lists this opportunity under eligibility category code 25. These codes correspond to applicant types (state/local government, tribal organization, nonprofit, educational institution, individual, small business, etc.) defined in Grants.gov's own eligibility reference. See the current Grants.gov eligibility categories or check the official listing below for this opportunity's exact eligibility statement.
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Parent Grant Program
Conservation Research and Development
U.S. Department of Energy
Agency Contact
Mary Cecilia Johnson 3018202681 Cecilia.Johnson@ee.doe.gov
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