(FOA)-Buildings
Energy Efficiency Frontiers & Innovation Technologies (BENEFIT) – 2019
(DE-FOA-0002090); May 21, 2019
Agency
Department
of Energy – Building
Technologies Office (BTO)
Description
The
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) through
the Building Technologies Office (BTO) program
supports research and development of innovative energy saving technologies,
systems, tools, and models that could lead to significant reduction in building
energy consumption. With this FOA, BTO intends to fund
high‐impact,
early‐stage
research in the following areas:
Topic
1: Flexible Building Technologies
This
topic supports early‐stage
R&D for dynamic energy efficiency technologies and techniques for existing
and new, residential and commercial buildings. This work is aligned with BTO’s
demand flexibility strategy that integrates advanced sensing, controls and
communication with flexible, energy efficiency technologies to advance the role
buildings can play in the modernizing power grid. Research is focused on
cybersecurity, advanced actuators and building controls, energy storage and
performance verification for flexible building
loads.
Topic
2: Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC)
Technologies
This
topic supports the development of highly efficient technologies for thermal
end‐uses
in buildings, including space conditioning, water‐heating
and refrigeration. These loads account for approximately half of the energy
consumed in buildings, including 28% of the total amount of U.S. natural gas
consumption. Work is focused on early‐stage
R&D for non‐vapor
compression technologies and fuel‐driven
(including natural gas and propane and other alternative fuels) equipment,
which have the potential to realize a step‐change
efficiency improvement over the current state‐of‐the‐art
technology. These alternatives to vapor compression can save energy through
their improved scalability which allows them to be sized to better match load
than can vapor compression technologies, thus greatly improving efficiency and
lowering first cost. This topic also supports more mature absorption based
solutions for space conditioning, water heating and combination systems that
optimize energy efficiency, reliability and energy
affordability.
Topic
3: Solid‐State
Lighting (SSL) Technologies
This
topic will support the development of highly efficient lighting technologies and
systems to improve lighting energy efficiency. Research is focused on solving
critical challenges in the efficiency of LEDs and organic light emitting diodes
(OLEDs). In addition, the topic will address application‐specific
lighting efficiency. The topic will go beyond the efficiency of just the light
source itself to provide the opportunity for the next generation of lighting
systems to be developed. The goal is to generate light more efficiently but
also more efficiently direct and control the use of light in buildings, without
negatively impacting product performance.
A
20% non-federal cost match is required.
Announcement
Number
DE-FOA-0002090
Closing
Date
Concept
Paper: May 21, 2019
Applications:
July 15, 2019
Link
to Full Announcement
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=315145
Contact
Information
Ashley
Reichl