Opportunity Information: Apply for DE FOA 0002975
The Clean Energy Technology Deployment on Tribal Lands - 2023 opportunity (Funding Opportunity Announcement DE-FOA-0002975) is a Department of Energy grant program run through the DOE Office of Indian Energy (Golden Field Office). Its purpose is to help Tribal communities move from planning to on-the-ground deployment of clean energy and related infrastructure by funding projects that install, expand, or improve energy systems on Tribal Lands. The emphasis is practical implementation: building and commissioning real projects that lower energy costs, improve reliability, support resilience during emergencies, and extend electricity service to places that do not have it.
Eligible applicants are Indian Tribes and Tribal entities, including federally recognized Native American tribal governments and other Native American tribal organizations. The FOA explicitly includes Alaska Native Regional Corporations and Alaska Native Village Corporations, as well as intertribal organizations and Tribal Energy Development Organizations. The funding instrument is a discretionary federal grant (CFDA 81.087, Energy), and DOE indicated it would only accept new applications under this announcement, not renewals or continuations of previously funded DOE awards.
Projects must align with one of four topic areas. Topic Area 1 focuses on Tribal buildings and supports installing clean energy generating systems and energy efficiency measures for those facilities. This can include pairing generation with efficiency upgrades so the building uses less energy and can meet more of its load with clean power. Topic Area 2 shifts from individual buildings to the community scale and supports deploying community-scale clean energy generating systems or energy storage on Tribal Lands, which can help stabilize local supply, reduce peak costs, and increase the amount of locally produced clean electricity. Topic Area 3 targets resilience and emergency preparedness by funding integrated energy systems capable of autonomous operation, meaning they can run independently of the traditional centralized electric grid. The intent is to keep one or more Essential Tribal Buildings powered during outages or emergency situations, improving tribal community resilience through microgrid-like configurations that can “island” and continue operating. Topic Area 4 addresses basic access by providing electric power to unelectrified tribal buildings, prioritizing service extension or standalone solutions that bring electricity to facilities that currently lack it.
DOE anticipated making multiple awards, with an expectation of about 20 total awards under the announcement. Award sizes depend on the topic area, with anticipated ranges that span from $100,000 up to $2,500,000 for some topic areas and from $250,000 up to $5,000,000 for others, and an overall award ceiling of $5,000,000. The planned period of performance for each grant was approximately two to four years, and it included a mandatory 12-month verification period. That verification component signals DOE’s focus on confirming that systems are installed, operating as intended, and delivering measurable performance outcomes after deployment rather than ending support immediately at construction completion.
Key administrative details include the FOA creation date of February 17, 2023, and an original application closing date of May 16, 2023. Overall, the program is designed to accelerate tangible clean energy deployment in Tribal communities by supporting building-level upgrades, community-scale generation and storage, resilient autonomous energy systems for essential services, and electrification of buildings that currently have no power.Apply for DE FOA 0002975
- The Department of Energy, Golden Field Office in the energy sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Clean Energy Technology Deployment on Tribal Lands - 2023" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 81.087.
- This funding opportunity was created on Feb 17, 2023.
- Applicants must submit their applications by May 16, 2023. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $5,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 20 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments).
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