EECBG Competitive Grants

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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) from the public and stakeholders for the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) Program: Competitive Grants.

DOE anticipates that a total of $453.72 million will be available for competitive grants awarded through one Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) with two topic areas: Topic Area 1, The Retrofit Ramp-Up Program and Topic Area 2, General Innovation Fund for Ineligible Entities.

The eligible entities for up to $390.04 million available under Topic 1 are the same as for the formula EECBG program: States, U.S. territories, counties, Cities, and Indian Tribes.

The eligible entities for up to $63.68 million available under Topic 2 are units of local government and Indian tribes that are not eligible for the direct formula grants. The purpose of this RFI is to solicit feedback on the proposed topic areas and evaluation criteria for the competitive awards for eligible entities, and for those that are not eligible for direct formula grants.

This is a RFI and not a FOA; therefore, DOE is not accepting applications and is instead seeking information from states, cities, counties, U.S. territories, Indian tribes and other interested parties on the assistance under the planned FOA.
 
Responses to this RFI must be submitted by email to: EECBG.Competitive.RFIcomments@emcbc.doe.gov no later than 5:00 PM Eastern Time on September 28, 2009. Responses must be provided as a Microsoft Word (.doc) attachment to the email, of no more than 3 pages in length, 12 point font, 1 inch margins. Only electronic responses will be accepted.

Click here to download the the full  RFI

Or you can download it from  www.fedconnect.net by searching for reference number “DE-FOA-0000148.”