On July 25, 2023, DOE's Office of Electricity launched the $15 million Storage Innovations 2030: Technology Liftoff (SI Liftoff) funding opportunity announcement (FOA) to enable long-duration energy storage technologies through durable research partnerships. SI Liftoff aims to leverage the Flight Paths listening session conversations and analytical Framework results, both described in the Technology Strategy Assessments released on July 19, 2023, to accelerate partnerships and enable pre-competitive R&D projects that have the potential to benefit entire technology industries.
This FOA will enable collaborative partnerships of two or more entities with a focus on one or several energy storage technologies. The selected technology or technologies must have a pathway to cost-effective, grid-scale, long-duration energy storage. Each partnership will be led by a central organization or a single member who will act as the primary recipient, and at least one other participating entity who will receive funds by applying with the lead as a project partner (more than two entities is encouraged). Each participating entity must be based in the United States. The partnership developed in response to this announcement will collaborate with two primary objectives:
- Partnership development: Entities will organize by coordinating with each other, engaging in meetings and discussions, and setting up durable channels of communication to effectively collaborate through this award period and afterwards. Entities are encouraged to think creatively to develop lasting partnerships.
- Partnering List: DOE will make a partnering list available specific to this FOA that organizations can list their contact information in to facilitate forming potential project partnerships. Please email [email protected] to submit your information using the template at: https://netl.doe.gov/grid-resilience/FOA3020. You may find the most up-to-date partnering list at the same URL.
- Pre-competitive R&D: Partnerships will receive funding to perform “pre-competitive R&D” projects at a research institution, such as (but not limited to) a DOE National Laboratory. “Pre-competitive R&D” includes activities that are of interest to multiple or all entities in the partnership. Such activities should propel an entire technology industry forward, and the outputs of this work should provide value to all participating members of the partnership. Further discussion of pre-competitive R&D is provided in the SI 2030 Technology Strategy Assessments. These assessments also provide themes and examples of activities consistent with DOE strategy. Applicants are strongly encouraged to leverage the Technology Strategy Assessments in identifying and proposing pre-competitive R&D.
Read the Storage Innovations 2030: Technology Liftoff Announcement.
Read the Storage Innovations 2030: Technology Liftoff FOA.