[CCoE Notice] Funding Opportunity: DOE Announces Funding for Critical Materials Energy Innovation Hub -- Letters of Intent due by June 29
Fritz Claydon
fclaydon at uh.edu
Tue Jun 12 10:59:17 CDT 2012
CCE Faculty:
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*From:* McGuire, Carole [mailto:cmcguire at lewis-burke.com]
*Sent:* Friday, June 08, 2012 10:17 AM
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*Subject:* Funding Opportunity: DOE Announces Funding for Critical
Materials Energy Innovation Hub -- Letters of Intent due by June 29****
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Please find below and attached a report on the Department of Energy’s (DOE)
funding opportunity announcement for the new Critical Materials Energy
Innovation Hub. This is the fifth Hub to be funded by the U.S. Congress
with $20 million approved for initial funding in fiscal year (FY) 2012.
Letters of Intent are required and are due by June 29. Full proposals for
the Critical Materials Hub are due by August 30. DOE intends to provide
$120 million to the Hub over five years subject to Congressional
appropriations.****
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The new Critical Materials Hub must be a large cross-disciplinary research
team of scientists, engineers, and technicians who will address the
lifecycle aspects of critical or rare earth materials that are necessary
for the manufacturing of new energy technologies. The challenge for the
Hub is to reduce the U.S. dependence on critical materials by addressing
the entire lifecycle of such materials. This lifecycle includes the
development of new materials to substitute for critical materials to meet
the needs of the clean energy economy, new techniques for processing and
manufacturing such materials, and the recycling, reuse, and more efficient
use of existing materials.****
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*Funding Opportunity: DOE Announces Funding for Critical Materials Energy
Innovation Hub – Letters of Intent due by June 29*****
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*Lewis-Burke Associates LLC – June 4, 2012 *****
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has released the funding opportunity
announcement (FOA) to establish a Critical Materials Energy Innovation Hub
(Hub). This is the fifth Hub to be funded by the U.S. Congress with $20
million approved for initial funding in fiscal year (FY) 2012. Letters of
Intent are required and are due by June 29. Full proposals for the
Critical Materials Hub are due by August 30. DOE intends to provide $120
million to the Hub over five years subject to Congressional appropriations.*
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**· **The new Critical Materials Hub must be a large
cross-disciplinary research team of scientists, engineers, and technicians
who will address the lifecycle aspects of critical or rare earth materials
that are necessary for the manufacturing of new energy technologies.****
**· **The challenge for the Hub is to reduce the U.S. dependence on
critical materials by addressing the entire lifecycle of such materials.
This lifecycle includes the development of new materials to substitute for
critical materials to meet the needs of the clean energy economy, new
techniques for processing and manufacturing such materials, and the
recycling, reuse, and more efficient use of existing materials.****
**· **DOE characterizes Neodymium, Dysprosium, Europium, Yttrium,
and Terbium as critical materials. Lithium, Tellurium, Cerium, Cobalt,
Gallium, Indium, Lanthanum, Manganese, and Praseodymium are classified as
near critical. DOE is not limiting proposals for the Hub only to these
materials. DOE intends to focus on short-, medium-, and long-term problems
and solutions to these critical materials and their availability. ****
**· **DOE also expects Hub proposals to include connections with
industry involved in materials processing, systems design and engineering,
and manufacturing and recycling with the goal of devising innovations that
can be scaled to commercial application.****
**· **In 2011, DOE published a Critical Materials Strategy that
outlines the challenges critical materials present. A workshop was held in
May 2011 for final input before the FOA was announced. Teams applying for
the Hub should use the “Strategy” document and “Critical Materials Workshop
Summary” to inform their proposals.****
**· **Of the $20 million provided for the Hub in FY 2012, up to $10
million can be used for renovation and equipping the Hub, but not for new
construction.****
**· **Cost-sharing of a minimum of 20 percent is required for teams
that are for-profit entities. For other non-federal entities, cost-sharing
is encouraged but not required for R&D, and a minimum of 20 percent is
needed for technology demonstration and deployment (D&D) activities.****
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The FOA for the Critical Materials Hub represents a priority for Secretary
of Energy Steven Chu and his DOE leadership team as they promote a clean
energy economy. These materials are key components in clean energy
technologies, such as electric vehicles, wind turbines, and efficient
lighting, and the Obama Administration does not want the United States at a
disadvantage in the coming global expansion of the development and
manufacture of such technologies. The Administration acknowledges supply
disruptions of critical materials could impede a domestic clean energy boom
in the United States. ****
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The FOA emphasizes that while the leadership of the Hub will be under the
purview of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and
its Advanced Manufacturing Program (formerly the Industrial Technologies
Program), oversight of the Hub will be carried out in close coordination
with the DOE Office of Science, the Advanced Research Projects
Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), and the DOE Office of Policy and International
Affairs. DOE seeks to integrate basic and applied research with
cutting-edge technology development to enable clean energy technology
development domestically. ****
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As with previous Hubs, DOE seeks large multi-disciplinary research teams
from national laboratories, universities, non-profit organizations, and
private industry. DOE expects the Hub to have strong central scientific
leadership and management that can make decisions to quickly change
research directions when warranted. The Hub must also have an advisory
board with membership from industry, academia, and national laboratories to
help inform research directions. ****
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The Administration also expects the integration of commercializing new
technologies, advanced manufacturing, and educational outreach to develop
the next-generation scientific and technical workforce in proposals to
establish the Critical Materials Hub.****
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The proposed Energy Innovation Hubs are the Administration’s initiative to
greatly accelerate the development of clean energy technologies through a
model that supports collaborative high-risk, high- reward transformational
research and technology development and commercialization. For additional
information on the Hubs, please see http://energy.gov/hubs.****
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*Sources:*
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A synopsis of the FOA for the DOE Critical Materials Hub can be found at
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do;jsessionid=pqBqPMvQzLzqvnnySTL7JyLc55vnxXFRK7Vyp1MZ7YhylM2r9Mz3!477727685?oppId=173654&mode=VIEW
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The link to the full FOA for the DOE Critical Materials Hub
(DE-FOA-0000687) can be found at
https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/#FoaId71ef57c0-ce63-4f56-865c-76ff132eaf21.
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The DOE *Critical Materials Strategy* can be found at
http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/edg/news/documents/criticalmaterialsstrategy.pdf.
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The summary of DOE Critical Materials Workshop can be found at
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/Critical_Materials_Workshop_Summary.pdf
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Please let me know if you have questions.****
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Thank you!****
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Carole****
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*Carole McGuire*****
Lewis-Burke Associates LLC ****
Government Relations****
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Washington, D.C. 20005****
Phone: (202) 289-7475****
Fax: (202) 289-7454****
cmcguire at lewis-burke.com****
www.lewis-burke.com****
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Fritz Claydon Ph.D.
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Dean of Administration and Research
University of Houston
Cullen College of Engineering
713.743.4204
fclaydon at uh.edu
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