Joint Office of Energy and Transportation opens $54M in funding for Communities Taking Charge Accelerator
Announcement Type: Funding Opportunity Announcement
Opportunity: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) – Joint Office of Energy and Transportation (Joint Office): Communities Taking Charge Accelerator, Fiscal Year 2024 Funding Opportunity Announcement
Overview and Eligible Uses: The Communities Taking Charge Accelerator FOA seeks applications that will help further the Joint Office’s vision of a future where everyone can ride and drive electric. This FOA will fund innovative approaches to expanding EV adoption and charging access, particularly at the local level in urbanized areas where land use, density, car ownership rates, grid considerations, and other factors add further complexities to electrifying the transportation network while the demand for transportation access is at its highest density.
Topic areas in the Joint Office’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 funding opportunity include:
Solving for No-Home Charging: Expanding Charging Access for Privately Owned E-Mobility
Expanding E-Mobility Solutions through Electrified Micro, Light and Medium-Duty Fleets
Managed Charging for Clean Reliable Energy.
Amount: The Joint Office anticipates making 6 to 20 awards between $250K and $4M under topic 1, with a total of $23M available for all topic 1 awards; 5 to 15 awards between $250K and $4M under topic 2, with a total of $20M available for all topic 2 awards; and, 3 to 6 awards between $1M and $4M under topic 3, with a total of $11M available for all topic 3 awards.
Award Type: Cooperative agreements
Eligible Applicants: Institutions of higher education, for-profit entities, non-profit entities, and state and local governmental entities, and Indian Tribes, are eligible prime and subrecipients for this FOA. The proposed recipients must be domestic entities.
Key Dates: Applicants must submit a concept paper by May 20, 2024 at 5:00 pm ET, full applications must be submitted by July 16, 2024 at 5:00 pm ET.
Key Links:
eere-exchange.energy.gov opportunity
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