Opportunity Information: Apply for DE FOA 0002723
The Department of Energy (DOE), through the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and its Building Technologies Office (BTO), issued this notice as a Request for Information (RFI) focused on research and development opportunities in building Energy Management and Control Systems (EMCS). The purpose is to collect practical input from a wide range of stakeholders, including private industry, universities, national and other research labs, government agencies, and any other interested parties with relevant expertise. The RFI concentrates on the current state of EMCS and what is needed next across core areas such as hardware and sensing, software and analytics, cybersecurity protections, and interoperability between devices and platforms.
The central aim of the RFI is strategy-setting rather than funding. DOE is using responses to help update BTO's research and development (R and D) strategy and to guide future planning for its portfolio of projects and priorities. The agency is looking for insights that can help drive measurable outcomes in the buildings sector: lower energy use, reduced emissions, and reduced operating costs. In other words, DOE wants to understand where the biggest technical gaps and market barriers are, what kinds of innovations are most promising, and what R and D directions could unlock adoption and impact at scale, especially as buildings become more connected and increasingly reliant on digital controls.
This opportunity is explicitly not a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) and it is not accepting applications or proposals for awards. It is purely a feedback-gathering exercise, even though it appears in the same systems where funding opportunities are often posted. DOE notes that it may choose to issue a future FOA that is informed by the information received in response to this RFI, but it also states clearly that it may decide not to release any FOA at all. As a result, respondents should treat this as an opportunity to shape future federal priorities and potential future solicitations, rather than as a current pathway to funding.
Administrative details in the listing identify the opportunity as discretionary and categorized under energy activities, with the CFDA number 81.086. Eligibility is described as unrestricted (open to any entity type), subject to any clarifications included in the full RFI text. The issuing office is listed as the Department of Energy, Golden Field Office. The RFI was created on June 3, 2022, with responses due by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on July 18, 2022. Submissions had to be emailed to emcsrfi@ee.doe.gov, and the response needed to be attached as a Microsoft Word document. The full announcement and any additional instructions were posted on the EERE Exchange website at https://eere-exchange.energy.gov under Funding Opportunity Number DE-FOA-0002723.
Although the listing includes fields like an award ceiling and expected awards, DOE makes clear there are no awards associated with this RFI and no applications are due. The practical takeaway is that DOE is seeking substantive, experience-based feedback on how to improve building EMCS technology and deployment, particularly around secure, interoperable, and effective controls, and it is using that feedback to refine federal R and D strategy and determine whether a future funded program should be launched.Apply for DE FOA 0002723
- The Department of Energy, Golden Field Office in the energy sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Request for Information (RFI): Research and Development Opportunities in Energy Management Control Systems" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 81.086.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jun 03, 2022.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 18, 2022 This is a request for information - no applications are due. (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 $2.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.
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