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Open and Upcoming Funding Opportunities

Open and upcoming funding opportunities for the Solar America Initiative are listed below by key activity areas. The Solar America Initiative provides significant funding opportunities for industry, universities, and federal, state, and local governments and non-government agencies. The purpose is to develop, improve, and deploy solar energy technologies.

The Solar Energy Technologies Program (SETP) attempts to maintain current information on funding opportunities. However, the official source of funding information is Grants.gov, which is the final arbiter if inconsistencies are encountered between the sources. Information on non-SAI solar funding opportunities is available in the SETP Financial Opportunities section.

For more information on the application process, see How to Apply.

Open Funding Opportunities

Funding opportunities are available for the following Research and Development and Market Transformation activities.

Market Transformation

Title:
Solar America Showcase
FOA#:
DE-PS36-08-GO98011
Description:
Under this Notice of Opportunity for Technical Assistance, DOE will provide Technical Assistance to large-scale, high-visibility solar installation projects that have the ability to impact the market for solar technologies through large project size, use of a novel solar technology, and/or use of a novel application for a solar technology. In addition, it is desired that the project be replicable or have replicable components. Large-scale installations may include photovoltaic, concentrating solar power, solar water heating, and solar space heating applications. Technical assistance will not be provided for research, product development, or early stage testing and evaluation of any technology or product. DOE will not purchase hardware or otherwise provide direct funding to organizations selected from this Notice.
Announcement Date:
December 21, 2007
Application Deadlines:
March 12, 2008 and June 12, 2008
Funding Amount:
Up to $200,000 per award
View Technical Assistance Opportunity


Upcoming Funding Opportunities

Multiple funding opportunities will be available in Fiscal Year 2008 for Research and Development and Market Transformation activities.

Title:
PV Supply Chain
Description:
The PV Supply Chain solicitation will address the grid parity goals of SAI by developing subsystem components, materials, or processes that can be supplied across the industry to reduce cost, enhance performance, or extend lifetime over today's technology.
Announcement Date:
June 2008
Title:
Education, Training, and Certification
Description:
The Solar Energy Technologies Program is also anticipating releasing a new FOA this year for education, training, and certification, with the details to be released at a later date.