Department of Energy Grant: Advancing Batteries and Energy Storage Innovations

The Department of Energy is offering a grant to establish an Energy Innovation Hub focusing on Batteries and Energy Storage. The Hub aims to push the boundaries of current energy storage technologies for transportation and grid applications. With funding up to $20 million in the first year and potential for $25 million annually in the following years, the Hub will drive cross-disciplinary research to overcome technical limitations and enable the development of groundbreaking energy storage solutions. The grant will support collaborations between researchers and industry to accelerate the deployment of innovative technologies into the market. Applications are open until May 31, 2012.

Opportunity ID: 141940

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General Information

Document Type::	Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number::	DE-FOA-0000559
Funding Opportunity Title::	Energy Innovation Hub – Batteries and Energy Storage
Opportunity Category::	Discretionary
Opportunity Category Explanation::
Funding Instrument Type::
Category of Funding Activity::	Science and Technology and other Research and Development
Category Explanation::
Expected Number of Awards::	1
Assistance Listings Number(s)::	81.049 — Office of Science Financial Assistance Program
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement::	Yes
Version::	Synopsis 2
Posted Date::	Feb 01, 2012
Last Updated Date::	May 15, 2012
Original Closing Date for Applications::	May 31, 2012
Current Closing Date for Applications::	May 31, 2012
Archive Date::	Sep 30, 2012
Estimated Total Program Funding::	$ 120,000,000
Award Ceiling::	$120,000,000
Award Floor::	$0

Eligibility

Eligible Applicants::	Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility”
Additional Information on Eligibility::

Additional Information

Agency Name::	Chicago Service Center
Description::	Energy Innovation Hubs are composed of large, multidisciplinary teams of investigators whose research integrates basic to applied research and focuses on a single critical national energy need. Batteries and electrical energy storage technologies are pivotal and straddle two major energy sectors: transportation and the grid. For vehicles, new batteries with improved lifetimes and storage capacities are needed to expand range of electric vehicles? for a single charge while simultaneously decreasing the manufacturing cost and weight. For the electrical grid, new approaches to electrochemical energy storage can enable inherently intermittent renewable energy sources to meet continuous electricity demand. Today?s electrical energy storage approaches suffer from limited energy and power capacities, lower-than-desired rates of charge and discharge, cycle life limitations, low abuse tolerance, high cost, and poor performance at high or low temperatu res. The Batteries and Energy Storage Hub will accelerate the development of energy storage solutions that are well beyond current capabilities and approach theoretical limits. This development will be enabled by cross-disciplinary R&D focused on the barriers to transforming electrochemical energy storage, including the exploration of new materials, devices, systems, and novel approaches for transportation and utility-scale storage. The Hub will provide a critical mass research effort to overcome the current technical limits for electrochemical energy storage to the point that the risk level will be low enough for industry to further develop the innovations discovered by the Hub and deploy these new technologies into the marketplace. To achieve these goals, the Batteries and Energy Storage Hub will foster unique collaborations bridging fundamental scientific research and technology development. The Batteries and Energy Storage Hub will be the fourth such Hub established by DOE. Three Energy Innovation Hubs were launched in FY 2010 ? Fuels from Sunlight; Energy Efficient Building Systems Design; and Modeling and Simulation for Nuclear Reactors. The Hub will be funded up to a total of $20 million in the first year; up to $10 million of those funds can be devoted to infrastructure start-up for the Hub, including building renovation (but not new construction), lease arrangements, equipment, and instrumentation. It is anticipated that the Hub will be funded up to $25 million per year for Hub operations in the final four years of the award period, pending Congressional appropriations.
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Version History

Version	Modification Description	Updated Date
Synopsis 2		May 15, 2012
Synopsis 1

Package Status

Below are CLOSED Opportunity Package(s) no longer available for this Funding Opportunity:

Package No: 1

Assistance Listings:	81.049
Competition ID:	DE-FOA-0000559
Competition Title:	Energy Innovation Hub – Batteries and Energy Storage
Opportunity Package ID:	PKG00096870
Opening Date:	Feb 01, 2012
Closing Date:	May 31, 2012
Agency Contact Information::	Tonja L. Stokes
Who Can Apply::	Organization and Individual Applicants
mendatory_forms	SF424 (R & R) [V1.2] Research & Related Budget (Total Fed + Non-Fed) [V1.1] Project/Performance Site Location(s) [V1.2] Research And Related Other Project Information [V1.2]
optional_forms	Research & Related Subaward Budget (Total Fed + Non-Fed) Attachment(s) Form [V1.2] Disclosure of Lobbying Activities (SF-LLL) [V1.1]

Packages

Assistance Listings	Competition ID	Competition Title	Opportunity Package ID	Opening Date	Closing Date	Actions	Who Can Apply:
81.049	DE-FOA-0000559	Energy Innovation Hub – Batteries and Energy Storage	PKG00096870	Feb 01, 2012	May 31, 2012	View	Tonja L. Stokes	Organization and Individual Applicants

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