Award Information: View Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects Awards

Key Dates:  Applications Due: August 26, 2009 

The purpose of this amendment is to issue the Smart Grid Demonstrations Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) in FINAL form. The FOA had previously been issued in DRAFT form on 04/16/2009 for potential applicants to submit questions and comments by 05/06/2009. DOE reviewed all of the questions and comments submitted during the comment period and utilized them, as appropriate, in creating this FINAL version of the FOA. This FINAL version of the FOA supersedes the DRAFT version of the FOA.

Program Information:  U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Smart Grid projects include regionally unique demonstrations to verify smart grid technology viability, quantify smart grid costs and benefits, and validate new smart grid business models, at a scale that can be readily adapted and replicated around the country. 

Grant Information: DOE will award smart grid grants to support regionally unique demonstration projects to quantify smart grid costs, benefits and cost-effectiveness, verify smart grid technology viability, and validate new smart grid business models, at a scale that can be readily adapted and replicated around the country.  Smart grid technologies of interest include advanced digital technologies for use in planning and operations of the electric power system and the electricity markets such as microprocessor-based measurement and control, communications, computing, and information.  Projects to demonstrate energy storage technologies include battery storage for utility load shifting, wind farm diurnal operations, ramping control, frequency regulation services, distributed energy storage, compressed air energy storage, and development of promising energy storage technologies.

For More Information:  DOE is currently revising the FOA.  A draft version is available www.fedconnect.net, Funding Opportunity Number:  DE-FOA-0000036.  The final FOA will include all due dates and a funding announcement timeline.   DOE Smart Grid grant contact: Darlene Riggi, denise.riggi@netl.doe.gov