EGS Funding Opportunity Announcement
The US Department of Energy (DoE) will host a conference call at 10am EDT on July 25th to discuss the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) Research, Development, and Demonstration.
The session will be comprised of an overview of the FOA by DoE staff followed by a question and answer period. The catch is that live questions will not be accepted on the teleconference, these questions must be submitted in advance via this web form no later than 12pm EDT on July 24th.
The FOA itself consists of two topic areas; Component Technologies R&D and System Demonstrations. For the R&D topic, the DoE seeks projects that address key aspects of engineered reservoir creation, management, and utilization by developing tools and techniques including zonal isolation, downhole pumps, fracture characterization, imaging fluid flow, tracers and tracer interpretation, high-temperature logging tools/sensors, and stimulation prediction models. The total funding for this area is $40M with a ceiling of $5M per award and no minimum. The award will take the form of a grant or cooperative agreement.
For the Demonstrations topic, the DoE seeks projects to characterize a geothermal system with low natural productivity, develop a plan to stimulate the productivity of the system, stimulate a well in the system and monitor the productivity or injectivity of the well in relation to other wells available in the system with the goal of increasing productivity or inter-well connectivity. The total funding for this area is $50M with a ceiling of $15M per award with no minimum. The award will be in the form of a cooperative agreement where at least 20% of the total project expense will be funded by non-government sources.
Call Logistics:
Dial-in: 888-391-6568
Passcode: 61564
Applications for the FOA itself are due by 11:59pm EDT on August 12, 2008.
