Assistance program
Conservation Research and Development
$2.4 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Energy, Department of, Energy, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants;Project Grants (Cooperative Agreements)
- CFDA number
- 81.086
- What it does
- The goal of this program is to conduct a balanced, long-term research effort in Buildings Technologies, Vehicle Technologies, Solid State Lighting Technologies, Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies, and Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization. Grants and cooperative agreements will be offered on a competitive basis to develop and transfer various energy conservation technologies to the non-federal sector. Submission deadlines will be published in specific Notices of Funding Opportunities on EERE Exchange at https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/. Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) are also posted at the grants.gov website at http://www.grants.gov.
- Who benefits
- For-profit organizations, private nonprofit institutions/organizations, State and local governments benefit.
- Who applies
- For-profit organizations, private nonprofit institutions/organizations, State and local governments may apply.
- Authorized by
- Department of Energy Organization Act of 1977, as amended
- Federal Nonnuclear Energy Research and Development Act of 1974
- Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021
- Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors and Science Act of 2022
- Energy Policy Act 1992
- Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA)
- Energy Policy Act 2005 (EPACT)
- Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
- Program site
- http://www.eere.energy.gov ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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