DOE SunShot Concentrating Solar Power Research and Development Grant Opportunity

A) Clarify that the cost share percentages listed in Section III.B, Cost Sharing, are the minimum required for each phase of the project;
B) Add font requirements to Section IV.D.3, Project Narrative;
C) Add the requirement for viii. Current and Pending Support Information (if applicable – not included in the 25-page limit) to Section IV.D.3, Project Narrative.

II. The areas which have changed are highlighted within the Funding Opportunity Announcement in yellow.

III. All other parts of the FOA remain unchanged.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) seeks to fund revolutionary applied scientific research that develops highly disruptive Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) technologies that will meet 6 cents per kWh cost target by the end of the decade. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for SunShot Concentrating Solar Power Research and Development intends to support research into technologies that have the potential for much higher efficiency, lower cost, and/or more reliable performance than existing commercial and near-commercial CSP systems and their expected incremental progress in future years. As part of the SunShot Initiative, this applied research program is intended to demonstrate and prove new concepts in the collector, receiver, and power cycle subsystems, including associated hardware and manufacturing processes. These developments should lead to subsequent system integration, engineering scale-up, and eventual commercial production for electricity generation appli
cations. The SunShot CSP program is designed to look beyond incremental near-term innovation and explore transformative concepts with the potential to break through performance barriers as known today, such as efficiency and temperature limitations. These goals support the mission of the DOE SunShot Initiative.

There are four topics to which an application may be submitted under this FOA:

Topic 1: Advanced Collectors
Topic 2: Advanced Receivers
Topic 3: Advanced Power Cycles
Topic 4: Seedling CSP Concepts

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 http://eere.energy.gov/financing/exchangeExchange/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.