New Funding: $30M to Advance Concentrating Solar-Thermal Technologies

Funding opportunity seeks projects to advance solar collectors, receivers and reactors, and novel power cycles.

Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page. Solar Energy Technologies Office  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) announced the Concentrating Solar Flux to Heat and Power funding opportunity, which will award $30 million for innovative research, development, and demonstration projects that accelerate the large-scale development and deployment of concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) technology. CSP technologies offer unique value as a renewable energy resource that can readily deliver high-temperature heat for uses in the industrial sector and incorporate energy storage for on-demand solar power.  SETO is interested in projects in three topic areas:   Topic Area 1: Scalable Concentrating Solar Collectors  Topic Area 2: Scalable Supercritical Carbon Dioxide (sCO2) Turbomachinery  Topic Area 3: Scalable Concentrating Solar-Thermal Receivers and Reactors  The goals of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) are aligned with DOE's target of achieving a levelized cost of heat of $0.02 per kilowatt-hour and levelized cost of electricity of $0.05 per kilowatt-hour by 2030. The FOA also supports the goals of DOE's Industrial Heat Shot, Hydrogen Shot, and Clean Fuels & Products Shot.   SETO anticipates making approximately six to 16 awards under this FOA ranging from $750,000 to $10 million. SETO encourages diverse teams from universities, nonprofit and for-profit companies, state and local governments, and Tribal Nations to apply.   Prior to submitting a full application, applicants must submit a concept paper by May 16 at 5 p.m. ET.  Learn more about this funding opportunity and other open funding opportunities within DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

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