The Building Technologies Office (BTO) Emerging Technologies Program has made significant updates to Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0001383, “Building Energy Efficiency Frontiers & Innovations Technologies (BENEFIT) – 2016,” including an increase in available funding from $8 million to $20 million. The updated funding opportunity has been posted to EERE Exchange, with modifications highlighted in the document, and also noted below.
BTO seeks to fund three Innovations topics and two Frontiers topics to support our efforts to reduce the energy use of commercial and residential buildings. In addition, a supplemental section will provide a maximum of $100K/year to encourage partnerships between universities and for-profit companies.
Please note the following modifications:
- Total available federal funding has increased from $8 million to $20 million.
- The number of anticipated awards has increased to approximately 17-25.
- The new deadline for concept papers is February 5, 2016.
- The second webinar has been rescheduled to March 17, 2016.
- Additional detail regarding buildings to grid interaction has been added for Topic Areas 1, 2 and 4.
- The new deadline for full applications is April 19, 2016.
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The Innovations section will support:
- Open Topic for Energy Efficiency Solutions for Residential and Commercial Buildings
- Human-in-the-Loop Sensor and Control Systems
- Infiltration Diagnostic Technologies
The Frontiers section will support:
- Plug and Play Sensor Systems
- Advanced Air-Sealing Technologies for Existing Buildings
Details
- Submission deadline for concept papers: February 5, 2016
- Submission deadline for full applications: April 19, 2016
- Informational webinar: View BENEFIT 2016 FOA – Introduction webinar
- Interested in partnering with other organizations? View our Teaming Partner List
- Questions about FOA: email BENEFIT2016@ee.doe.gov
- Learn more: about our current portfolio of projects