The Department of Energy (DOE)'s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office (HFTO) seeks input on priority areas that will advance domestic manufacturing and recycling of clean hydrogen technologies, including fuel cells, storage equipment, and other hydrogen related components as specified below; and on priority areas that will advance electrolyzer technologies for affordable clean hydrogen production, in alignment with the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and the mission of DOE’s Hydrogen Energy Earthshot to reach the goal of $1 per 1 kilogram in 1 decade (“1 1 1”).

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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.

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The Net Zero Technology Center has announced its first 2022 six-week funding window. The projects must support the transition towards net zero with an obligation of trialing and deploying technology within the UK continental shelf. Hydrogen and clean fuel related projects are encouraged to apply. £7 million ($9.2 million) is available for projects, with a maximum of £1 million ($1.3 million) per project.

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The Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act of 2015 required the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to designate national alternative fueling corridors (Title 23, United States Code, Section 151). Additionally, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), enacted as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, amended Section 151 to update the requirements related to the designation of national alternative fueling corridors.

Any state or local agency is invited to nominate an alternative fueling corridor for designation.

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The Department of Energy (DOE)'s Office of Science has released a new grant opportunity. Single principle investigators and small teams are encouraged to apply to support the development of approaches that will minimize climate impacts of energy technologies and manufacturing. Clean energy technologies are defined as projects that capture, produce, convert, store, and use energy that reduce or eliminate unwanted emissions such as greenhouse gases (e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, etc.). $150 million has been allocated overall, with a max of $1.5 million per project.

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Through its first call for proposals, the Clean Hydrogen Partnership will provide €300.5 million to support projects that boost renewable hydrogen production, reduce its costs, develop its storage and distribution solutions, and stimulate the use of low carbon hydrogen in hard to abate sectors, such as energy intensive industries, aviation or heavy duty transport.

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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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