Solicitations

Here you'll find the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) current solicitations for funding geothermal technology projects. These Funding Opportunity Announcements are one of the primary ways DOE's Geothermal Technologies Program (GTP) works in partnership with U.S. industry, academia, and research laboratories to establish geothermal energy as an economically competitive contributor to the U.S. energy supply.

Open Geothermal Technologies Funding Opportunity

GTP has issued a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for up to $5 million over five years. This work will create and maintain a web-based National Geothermal Database that will help to overcome barriers to the development of conventional and Enhanced Geothermal Systems.

Initial estimated total funding for this award is listed at $1,300,000 in FY2009; with additional anticipated funds of $3,700,000 in years FY2010 through FY2013, subject to the availability of Congressional appropriations. DOE anticipates making one award under this announcement.

Geothermal energy has the potential to emerge as a capable alternative to conventional energy resources due to its renewable baseload capabilities, little to no carbon emissions, and affordability relative to other alternative energy technologies. In early 2008, GTP initiated the Geothermal Risk Mitigation Strategies Report (PDF 778 KB) to analyze the risks involved with geothermal energy development. Download Adobe Reader.

The report proposed strategies to overcome barriers to development and to enable additional investment in conventional and enhanced geothermal systems. As a result of this study, GTP is initiating an effort to create the National Geothermal Database to serve as a central repository for all publically accessible geothermal data.

Creating, maintaining, and operation this database is the subject of this FOA, titled National Geothermal Database and you can find further on and requirements for responding to this Geothermal FOA DE-PS36-08GO98020 as part of the DOE Industry Interactive Procurement System.

You can also access and download the complete Announcement DE-PS36-08GO98020 (PDF 102 KB). Download Adobe Reader.