Opportunity Information: Apply for DE FOA 0003330
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), through its Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) and in partnership with the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), is asking the public for input on a proposed Carbon Transport Research, Development and Demonstration (RD&D) Consortium under Request for Information (RFI) DE-FOA-0003330. The central purpose of this RFI is to gather feedback that can shape whether DOE decides to create and support a consortium focused specifically on carbon transport, and if so, what that consortium should prioritize, how it should operate, and what gaps it should address across the carbon management landscape.
The envisioned consortium would concentrate on carbon transport RD&D across multiple modes, not just pipelines. DOE explicitly references pipelines, rail, truck, ship, and barge transportation, signaling an interest in the full set of logistics options needed to move carbon dioxide or related carbon streams from capture sites to utilization or storage locations. In practice, this suggests the consortium could look at technical and operational challenges such as transport safety and integrity, monitoring and measurement, materials and components, routing and right-of-way considerations, intermodal transfer, cost and scalability barriers, and the practical realities of building a network that can expand as carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) deployment increases.
A major theme in the RFI is coordination and information-sharing. DOE indicates the consortium is meant to identify and coordinate initiatives for carbon transport RD&D, facilitate communication among stakeholders, and compile and curate information in an open-access platform. That combination points to a structure that is not just funding-focused, but also designed to reduce duplication of effort, connect researchers with industry and regulators, and make data, learnings, best practices, and potentially standards-related resources easier to find and use. Stakeholders who might be relevant include technology developers, pipeline and transport operators, rail and maritime logistics providers, industrial emitters, CCUS project developers, universities, national labs, state and local entities, standards organizations, community groups, and regulators.
It is important to read this opportunity as a feedback process rather than a grant competition. This is an RFI only: DOE will not pay for the information submitted, no project will be supported directly as a result of responding, and the agency is not accepting applications for financial assistance or incentives through this notice. DOE also makes clear that it may or may not issue a future Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) based on what it hears. In other words, the immediate opportunity here is to influence how a future program might be designed, what topics it might fund, what consortium functions are most valuable, and what outcomes and governance model would best serve the carbon transport RD&D community.
From the source details provided, the opportunity is listed under the Energy activity category (CFDA 81.089) and is associated with a cooperative agreement instrument type, which is often used by DOE when it anticipates substantial involvement in shaping or overseeing funded work. Eligibility is described as unrestricted, reflecting that DOE is seeking broad input rather than limiting participation to a narrow set of entities. The RFI was created on 2024-09-18 and has an original closing date of 2024-10-09, which frames the window for submitting comments. While the listing includes fields like award ceiling and expected awards, those do not function in the normal way for an RFI because there is no commitment to make awards under this notice.
Overall, this RFI is best understood as DOE and NETL testing the waters and gathering concrete, experience-based recommendations for building a national or multi-stakeholder consortium that can accelerate carbon transport readiness. Anyone with relevant technical knowledge, project experience, research capabilities, regulatory perspective, or community and environmental insight has an opening to provide input that could shape a later FOA and, ultimately, the direction of federal efforts to make carbon transport safer, more reliable, more cost-effective, and easier to scale.Apply for DE FOA 0003330
- The National Energy Technology Laboratory in the energy sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Request for Information on Request for Information on Carbon Transport Research, Development and Demonstration Consortium" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 81.089.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2024-09-18.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-10-09. (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.
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