Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) – FY21 Bioenergy Technologies Scale-up and Conversion FOA. Total funding is $61,380,000 with maximum awards of $500K-$5M, depending on project. This FOA supports high-impact technology research, development, demonstration, and deployment (RDD&D) to accelerate the bioeconomy and, in particular, the production of low-carbon fuels for the aviation industry.

California Energy Commission – Renewable Hydrogen Transportation Fuel Production. Total funding is $7,000,000 with maximum awards of $3M. This solicitation will fund projects to design, engineer, construct, install, test, operate, and maintain a hydrogen facility in California that will produce 100 percent renewable hydrogen from in-state renewable resource(s). The facility, once constructed and operational, will be a source of 100% renewable hydrogen which will be utilized for transportation fuel.

Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration – 2021 Port Infrastructure Development Grants. Total funding is $230,000,000 with maximum awards of $1M-$57.5M, depending on project. The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 appropriated $230 million for the Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP) to make grants to improve facilities within, or outside of and directly related to operations of or an intermodal connection to, coastal seaports, inland river ports, and Great Lakes ports.

South Coast AQMD – 2021 Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program. Total funding is $36,000,000 with maximum awards of $30K-$100K cost-effective limits. The CMP provides financial incentives to equipment owners to repower, retrofit or replace in-use heavy-duty vehicles and equipment with cleaner-than-required engine and equipment technologies that will achieve emission reductions that are real, surplus, quantifiable and enforceable.

Department of Energy – Materials and Chemical Sciences Research for Direct Air Capture of Carbon Dioxide. Total funding is $24,000,000 with maximum awards of $200K-$1.2M per year, depending on project. The DOE SC program in Basic Energy Sciences (BES) announces its interest in receiving applications from single investigators and from teams for support of experimental and theoretical efforts to advance fundamental understanding of the capture of CO2 from dilute sources including combined capture and chemical conversion of CO2.

Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) – Industrial Assessment Centers. Total funding is $52,500,000 with maximum awards of $500K-$2.25M, depending on topic. This FOA seeks to train the future clean energy and manufacturing workforce by providing hands-on experience for engineering students who will conduct energy assessments at SMEs, often located in rural communities.

California Energy Commission – Mobile Renewable Backup Generation (MORBUGs). Total funding is $14,000,000 with maximum awards of $1M-$3M, depending on group. This solicitation will fund projects to advance clean energy mobile backup systems or Mobile Renewable Backup Generation Systems (MORBUGs) that increase the resiliency of the electricity system to climate change and extreme weather events.

Federal Aviation Administration – Airport Coronavirus Response Grant Program. Total funding is $2,000,000,000 with maximum awards of $5M-$1.75B, depending on airport. The FAA has established the Airport Coronavirus Response Grant Program (ACRGP) to distribute funds to be awarded as economic relief to eligible U.S. airports and eligible concessions at those airports to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

FTA – FY 2021 Competitive Funding Opportunity: Low or No Emission Grant Program. Total funding is $180,000,000 with maximum awards of 80-90% of net project cost. The Low-No Program provides funding to State and local governmental authorities for the purchase or lease of zero-emission and low-emission transit buses, including acquisition, construction, and leasing of required supporting facilities such as recharging, refueling, and maintenance facilities.

EDA – 2021 Build to Scale Program. Total funding is $38,000,000 with maximum awards of $400K-$1.5M, depending on challenge. EDA’s Office of Innovation & Entrepreneurship is committed to furthering tech-based economic development initiatives that accelerate high quality job growth, create more economic opportunities, and support the future of the next generation of industry leading companies.