The Department of Energy (DOE) has recently announced the topics for its upcoming funding opportunities through the Small Business Innovation Research program. The next phase will include opportunities on hydrogen contamination, fuel cell cathode catalysts, and flow metering components, through DOE's H2@Scale program.

Click here for program information and click here for the full topic announcement.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today released a Request for Information (RFI) on technologies ready to be demonstrated that reduce carbon emissions and remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The RFI seeks feedback from industry, investors, developers, academia, research laboratories, government agencies, NGOs, and potentially affected communities (including environmental justice, Tribal, energy transition, and other communities). In all cases, the RFI seeks information about the entire life cycle of these technologies, including fossil fuel supply chain considerations, future system risks, and social/institutional context.

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The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) issued a request for comment in response to the Bipartisan Infrastructure law. The law establishes a discretionary grant program for Charging and Fueling Infrastructure to strategically deploy publicly accessible EV charging infrastructure, as well as hydrogen, propane, and natural gas fueling infrastructure along designated alternative fuel corridors or in certain other locations that are accessible to all drivers of such vehicles.

In addition, the law establishes a National Electric Vehicle Formula Program to deploy EV charging infrastructure and to establish an interconnected network to facilitate data collection, access, and reliability.

FHWA is inviting public comments to inform the development of the guidance for both of these programs.

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This is a competitive grant program that provides funding for new, publicly accessible DC Fast Charging and Hydrogen Fueling projects built in strategic locations in Pennsylvania and designed to supply light duty vehicles. Grant funding is available for up to 70% of project costs, capped at $500,000 per award for hydrogen fueling projects and $250,000 for DC fast charging projects. This program is part of the Driving Pennsylvania Forward suite of financial incentive programs utilizing funds from the VW settlement to improve Pennsylvania’s air quality.

Click here for more information on the grant program and here for application instructions.

The New South Wales government is soliciting expressions of interest (EOI) for grant funding for commercial scale green hydrogen projects to reduce investment risk. Funding is being prioritised for projects that can scale quickly and support increasing hydrogen demand, such as heavy transport deployment, and projects that support the creation of a distributed refuelling network.

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The German government recently announced its funding guideline for international green hydrogen projects, through which non-repayable grants totaling EUR 350 million will be provided for green hydrogen production, storage, transport, and application as well as research projects.

The funding guideline aims at projects outside the EU with a German partner, the maximum amount per project is EUR 15 million. The first call for proposals closes at the end of October 2021, followed by two additional calls in December 2021 and February 2022.

During our session, participants from the involved German ministries and their execution partner will give an overview on the funding guideline. The presentation and Q&A will be followed by a networking session that brings together interested stakeholders from the USA and Germany to facilitate connections with a view to exploring potential joint projects.

For more information, please contact Project Management Jülich for further specific questions regarding the funding guideline and project applications.

The Scottish Affairs Committee will be inquiring into hydrogen and carbon capture in Scotland as a follow up to a previous renewable energy in Scotland inquiry. They want to hear about Scotland's role in hydrogen production and including opportunities for carbon capture utilisation and storage.

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The Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation is looking for research and development cooperation proposals between unrelated Israeli and US companies. There are a number of potential topics and the foundation will fund up to 50% of research and development costs associated with the joint project, up to $1 million.

Click here for more information on the call for proposals.

The Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade opened applications for the Advanced Industries Early-Stage Capital and Retention Grant helps Colorado-based advanced industries technology businesses develop and commercialize advanced technologies that will be created or manufactured in Colorado. Projects can receive up to $250,000. This grant award maximum can be lifted for projects that impact more than one advanced industry.

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The New Mexico Environment Department announced two funding opportunities for up to $7.6 million, with a preference for fuel cell electric vehicles. The state is looking for diesel emission reduction projects, including the repowering or replacement of Class 8 local freight trucks and drayage trucks, Class 4-8 buses, freight switcher locomotives, and Class 4-7 local freight trucks.

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The Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE), in coordination with the Maryland Energy Administration (MEA), has developed two frameworks for proposals under Maryland's Volkswagen Mitigation Plan. Please review the Round 2 frameworks carefully before submitting project proposals, as the frameworks were updated to reflect comments received after Round 1.

Click here to view the frameworks.

The California Energy Commission is authorized to provide $125 million towards grants that “increase in-state manufacturing of zero-emission vehicles, zero-emission vehicle components, and zero-emission vehicle charging or refueling equipment.”

Based on feedback received from pre-solicitation workshops, CEC staff are planning to develop two competitive grant funding solicitations. The first solicitation will focus on ZEVs and ZEV-Related Manufacturing and will offer grant funding to projects that increase the in-state manufacturing of ZEVs, ZEV components (including batteries), and ZEV charging/refueling infrastructure whose products are available for commercial sale. CEC staff expects to release this grant funding solicitation in Spring 2022 to accept applications for funding. CEC staff expects to initially offer $60 million under this solicitation, with the ability to increase this amount in the future.

A second solicitation will focus on seeking a third-party block grant implementer who will, with guidance and oversight from the CEC, design and implement grant funding incentives that promote in-state battery manufacturing and production in the clean transportation sector. A pre-solicitation workshop is planned for the end of January 2022, with a competitive solicitation to select the implementer expected to be released in late Spring 2022. CEC staff expects to initially offer $25 million under this solicitation, with the ability to increase this amount in the future.

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There are $90 million in funds allocated to this category, for which the first installment was allotted $27 million. The first solicitation is scheduled for release pending approval by the South Coast AQMD Board on Friday, August 7, 2020. If approved, applications will be accepted online beginning Tuesday, August 18, 2020, at 1:00 p.m. (PST) and will be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis.

Both public and private entities that own and operate eligible vehicles may apply. Funding is available to replace the following vehicles with zero emission technologies:

Class 8 only:

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CORE is designed to accelerate deployment of cleaner off-road technologies by providing a streamlined way for fleets ready to purchase specific zero-emission equipment to receive funding to offset the higher cost of such technologies. This project is analogous to the Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project (HVIP), but will specifically target zero-emission off-road freight equipment that is currently in the early stages of commercial deployment.

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