Opportunity Information: Apply for DE FOA 0002909
This Notice of Intent explains that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), through the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and its Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO), planned to release two related Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) focused on bioenergy and low-carbon bioproducts. The two forthcoming FOAs were (1) DE-FOA-0002910, "Reducing Carbon Intensity and Protecting Algal Crops (RACIPAC)," and (2) DE-FOA-0002946, the "2023 Conversion R&D FOA." Together, they were designed to fund research and development that makes renewable carbon resources easier to use at scale and improves the technologies that convert those resources into fuels and chemicals with major life-cycle greenhouse gas benefits.
The first FOA, RACIPAC, is aimed at earlier parts of the bioenergy value chain: how feedstocks are grown, managed, and protected so they can become truly low-carbon inputs for fuels and products. BETO signaled that RACIPAC would emphasize high-impact work to reduce the carbon intensity of agricultural feedstocks, increase or protect soil carbon, and address practical risks that threaten algae cultivation. In the Notice, DOE highlighted two anticipated Areas of Interest. Area of Interest 1 focuses on climate-smart agricultural practices that produce low carbon intensity (CI) feedstocks, which typically means practices that reduce emissions from cultivation and logistics while improving soil health and carbon sequestration. Area of Interest 2 focuses on algae crop protection, specifically the challenge of pests and other biological threats that can cause crop losses and undermine the reliability and economics of algae as a scalable renewable carbon resource.
The second FOA, the 2023 Conversion R&D FOA, targets the conversion step: the processes and technologies that turn biomass and waste-derived carbon into usable fuels, fuel blendstocks, and bioproducts. DOE described a priority on converting domestic lignocellulosic biomass (for example, agricultural residues, woody biomass, and other non-food plant material) and waste resources, including industrial syngas, into affordable products. A central performance theme is deep decarbonization, with DOE specifying an intent to support pathways that deliver at least a 70 percent reduction in life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions compared with petroleum-based equivalents. The Notice listed two anticipated Areas of Interest here as well. Area of Interest 1 centers on overcoming barriers to syngas conversion, which generally refers to improving catalysts, bioconversion routes, process integration, contaminants tolerance, and overall efficiency and cost so syngas can be reliably upgraded into fuels and chemicals. Area of Interest 2 highlights strategic opportunities to decarbonize the chemicals industry through biocatalysts, pointing toward enzyme- or microbe-enabled routes that can replace or reduce fossil-based chemical production while improving selectivity and lowering energy intensity.
Across both FOAs, DOE framed the work as part of a broader federal push to address climate change by accelerating innovation and deployment of clean energy technologies. The Notice explicitly connects these R&D investments to the Administration’s longer-term goal of net-zero economy-wide emissions by 2050, emphasizing that better feedstocks and better conversion technologies are both necessary to scale sustainable fuels and chemicals. It also ties the effort to near- and mid-term aviation decarbonization targets, including the goal of producing 3 billion gallons per year of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and reducing aviation emissions by 20 percent by 2030, laying groundwork for the longer-term objective of zero-carbon aviation by 2050.
From an administrative and applicant-readiness standpoint, this document is not the FOA itself, but an advance heads-up so potential applicants could prepare. DOE stated that details were subject to change and that the agency would not answer questions about the Notice; a formal Q&A process would only open after the FOAs were officially posted. EERE expected to issue the FOAs around January 2023, and emphasized that applications would be submitted only through the EERE eXCHANGE portal (https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/). Interested parties were encouraged to register in eXCHANGE to receive official updates and notifications once the FOAs were released.
The source listing also indicates this opportunity sits within DOE’s energy funding domain (CFDA 81.087) and would use financial assistance instruments such as grants and cooperative agreements. Eligibility was described as unrestricted in general terms (open to any type of entity), subject to any additional eligibility language contained in the full FOA text once released. The Notice is associated with the DOE Golden Field Office, had a posting/creation date of December 15, 2022, and showed an original closing date of January 20, 2023, though the Notice repeatedly cautions that specifics could change when the actual FOAs were published.Apply for DE FOA 0002909
- The Department of Energy, Golden Field Office in the energy sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Notice of Intent to Issue: Funding Opportunity Announcement No. DE-FOA-0002910 and Funding Opportunity Announcement No. DE-FOA-0002946" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 81.087.
- This funding opportunity was created on Dec 15, 2022.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jan 20, 2023. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.
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