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Open and Upcoming Funding Opportunities

Open and upcoming funding opportunities for the Solar America Initiative are listed below by key activity areas. The Solar America Initiative provides significant funding opportunities for industry, universities, and federal, state, and local governments and non-government agencies. The purpose is to develop, improve, and deploy solar energy technologies.

The Solar Energy Technologies Program (SETP) attempts to maintain current information on funding opportunities. However, the official source of funding information is Grants.gov, which is the final arbiter if inconsistencies are encountered between the sources. Information on non-SAI solar funding opportunities is available in the SETP Financial Opportunities section.

For more information on the application process, see How to Apply.

Open Funding Opportunities

Market Transformation

Title:

Solar America Showcases

NOTA#:

DE-PS36-08GO98011

Description:

Solar America Showcases are designed to help facilitate large-scale installations that involve cutting edge solar technologies, novel applications of solar, high visibility sites, and/or high likelihood of replicability. Solar America Showcase is a Notice of Opportunity for Technical Assistance (NOTA) and does not include direct federal funding for any recipient. Instead, showcase projects include technical assistance through teams of DOE-funded solar experts from national laboratories.

Application Deadline:

October 9, 2008

Funding Amount:

Technical Assistance Only (Up to $200,000)

Upcoming Funding Opportunities

Multiple funding opportunities will be available in Fiscal Year 2008 for Research and Development and Market Transformation activities.

Research and Development

Title:

PV Supply Chain

Description:

The PV Supply Chain solicitation will address the grid parity goals of SAI by developing subsystem components, materials, or processes that can be supplied across the industry to reduce cost, enhance performance, or extend lifetime over today's technology.

Award Announcement Date:

Fall 2008

Market Transformation

Title:

Education, Training, and Certification

Description:

The Solar Energy Technologies Program is also anticipating releasing a new FOA this year for education, training, and certification, with the details to be released at a later date.