NASEO News
Thirteen More
States and Territories Awarded SEP
Funding
The US Department of Energy announced
approval on July 6th of State Energy
Program (SPE) plans under the Recovery
Act for Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky,
Mississippi, Montana, New York, and the
Virgin Islands. Please
click here for the 7/6 press release
from DOE. On July 10th, DOE approved
SEP plans from Hawaii, Maine, Nebraska,
New Mexico, the Northern Mariana
Islands, and Texas. Please
click here for the 7/10 news from
DOE. All of these 13 states and
territories have now received 50% of
their Recovery Act SEP funding. Please
click here for a June 30th NASEO
press release on the 16 states to
previously receive DOE approval.
Follow-up to
Webcast on DOE's Smart Grid Resiliency
Grant FOA
On July 1, 2009, NASEO held a webcast
on the State Energy Assurance Grant
Program that was well attended. We have
placed a number of reference documents
from the call on the NASEO web site to
assist you in preparation of your grant
applications. They can be found under
Additional Resources along with a copy
of the power point presented during the
webcast at:
http://www.naseo.org/foa/energyassurance/
Among the important points from the call
are that each State should request the
total dollar amount allocated to them in
Attachment A of the Funding Opportunity
Announcement (FOA). Additional budget
detail is not required at this time only
the total amount of the grant. Also in
the three (3) page Project Narrative you
need only to provide a general
description of how you expect to use the
funding in accordance with the
requirements as outlined in the FOA.
The grant provides for states and
territories to develop more detailed
Management Plans within sixty (60) day
of the Grant Award and this is the point
in time where additional detail will be
needed to define specific task to be
undertaken and resources required to
provide the deliverables required by the
grant. We also have set up an e-mail
address to answer questions you may have
which is
eaguidelines@naseo.org. E-mail
directed to that address goes to NASEO
staff and we will try and get an answer
and contact you as soon as we can.
Please note that all "Official" grant
inquires and clarifications must be
submitted through FedConnect.
DOE Announces
Solicitation for RD&D on Combined Heat
and Power System
From US DOE EERE News 7/8/2009: DOE
announced the issuance of a Funding
Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for up to
$40 million in research, development and
demonstration of combined heat and power
(CHP) systems, based on annual
appropriations. Combined Heat and
Power technologies—those that co-produce
heat and electricity -- an be deployed in
industrial, commercial, and residential
settings to improve efficiency, control
costs, and limit greenhouse gas
emissions—making U.S. industry more
productive and more competitive.
Combined Heat and Power and District
Energy Systems can achieve efficiencies
of 80% or better compared to roughly 45%
for conventional heat and power
production. This FOA will accelerate
the development and deployment of CHP
technologies and systems to work towards
a goal of increasing U.S. electricity
generation capacity from CHP. DOE will
provide up to 50% of these cost-shared
awards. Specifically, this solicitation
will seek applications for funding of
research, development and demonstration
of stationary CHP systems at three power
levels. The first level covers "large"
systems with greater than 20 megawatts
(MW) of electricity output. This area
has an estimated total budget of $30
million -- $15 million from the DOE. Area 2
has an estimated total budget of $30
million -- $15 million in federal funding
and covers "medium" size systems between
1 MW and 20 MW. Area 3 has an estimated
budget of $20 million -- $10 million in DOE
cost-share—and covers "small" size
systems smaller than 1 MW. For more
information about this funding
opportunity, please visit
Grants.gov.
Funding Rules
to Aid Renewables Unveiled
From the New York Times 7/9/2009:
"The Treasury and the Energy Department
today unveiled long-awaited
new rules under which the government
will pay up to 30 percent of the cost of
renewable energy projects. The program
was authorized by Congress as part of
the stimulus package in February, but
many projects have been on hold as
investors waited to apply for the
grants. Government officials said that
although there is no cap for the
funding, they expected to give out $3
billion in grants." Please
click here for the full article.
NASEO is planning several exciting
and informative events for state energy
officials throughout the summer. In
conjunction with the Energy Information
Administration, NASEO is hosting the
State Heating Oil and Propane Program
Conference in Newport, RI August
3rd-4th.
Registration is open and
a preliminary agenda is online.
NASEO is also coordinating with the US
DOE Industrial Technologies Program on
the
Midwest Industrial Energy Efficiency
Exchange in Detroit, MI September
9th-10th.
Registration for this regional meeting
is also open. NASEO will hold its
annual meeting in Annapolis, MD
September 13th-16th.
Registration is open and NASEO will
post an agenda in the coming weeks.
Interested sponsors and exhibitors can
click here to learn more about
opportunities for this event. Please
contact
Shemika Spencer if you have any
questions about NASEO meetings. |
