Key Dates: Applications Due: August 24, 2009

Program Information: The Clean Coal Power Initiative Round 3 (CCPI-3) will fund advanced coal-based projects that have progressed beyond the research and development stage to a point of readiness for operation at a scale that, once demonstrated, can be readily replicated and deployed into commercial practice within the electric power industry.

Grant Information: The purpose of the amendment is to re-open the FOA and provide a second application due date in order to make certain programmatic and administrative changes.  The CCPI-3 Announcement specifically targets advanced coal-based systems and subsystems that capture and sequester, or put to beneficial reuse, carbon dioxide emissions. The announcement is also open to any coal-based, advanced carbon capture technologies that result in co-benefits with respect to efficiency, environmental, or economic improvements potentially capable of achieving CCPI coal technology performance levels specified in the EPACT 2005, Title IV, Subtitle A, Section 402. DOE's goals in this Announcement are to demonstrate at commercial scale in a commercial setting technologies that (1) can achieve a minimum of 50% capture efficiency and make progress toward a target carbon dioxide capture efficiency of 90 %, (2) make progress toward capture and sequestration at less than 10 % increase in the COE for gasification systems and less than 35 % for combustion and oxycombustion systems, and (3) capture and sequester or put to beneficial reuse a minimum of 300,000 tons per year using a thirty day running average to determine if the project successfully meets the carbon dioxide capture efficiency and the capture and sequestration or beneficial reuse rate requirements of this Announcement.

For More Information:When the full FOA amendment is released, check www.fedconnect.net. Search Funding Opportunity Number: DE-FOA-0000042.