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A -- BROAD BASED SOLICITAION FOR SUBMISSION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE APPLICATIONS INVOLVING RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND DEMONSTRATION FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY TECHNOLOGIES. SOL DE-PS36-99GO10383 POC Contact Point, John P. Motz 303/275-4737, Contracting Officer, John W. Meeker, 303/275-4748 WEB: Click here to download a copy, http://www.eren.doe.gov/golden/solicit.htm. E-MAIL: Click here to contact the Contracting Officer, john_meeker@nrel.gov. 1. P!! 2. 1108!! 3. 98!! 4. GPO645033!! 5. 80401!! 6. A!! 7. Department of Energy, Golden Field Office, 1617 Cole Boulevard., Golden, Colorado, 80401!! 8. A -- Broad Based Solicitation for Submission of Financial Assistance Applications Involving Research, Development, and Demonstration for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Technologies. 9. DE-PS36-99GO10383 10. N/A!! 11. Contact Point, John P. Motz, 303/275-4737, Contracting Officer, John W. Meeker, 303/275-4748!! 12. N/A!! 13. N/A!! 14. N/A!! 15. N/A!! 16. N/A!! 17. The DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) has a continuing interest in receiving applications for grants and cooperative agreements supporting renewable energy and energy efficiency basic research, directed and applied research, cooperative demonstrations, and related activities. The Broad Based Solicitation will provide specific information and will consist of two parts: the first part is generic and will consist of guidelines and requirementsfor submitting applications; the second part will be specific to designated program areas of interest and will consist of individual supplemental announcements issued at a later date. These individual supplemental announcements will contain technology specific information, anticipated programmatic funding levels, eligibility requirements, evaluation criteria, any cost sharing requirements, application deadlines, and any other requirements specific to the supplemental announcements. Notices of release of the detailed supplemental announcements will be published separately in the Commerce Business Daily as they become available. It is anticipated that the initial supplemental announcements will be in the following program areas: 1) innovative technologies that will increase the efficiency or lower the cost of producing and converting biomass to transportation fuels; 2) demonstration programs to obtain operational data regarding alternative fuel and advanced technologies for use by fleet managers in making vehicle acquisition decisions; 3) research, development and demonstration of innovative concepts applicable to trucks and other heavy vehicles so they can be more energy efficient and able to use alternative fuels while simultaneously reducing emissions; 4) the use of artificial intelligence techniques to synthesize and extract patterns of heavy-duty truck performance under a variety of real-world operating conditions from real-time operational data on fuel efficiency, cost effectiveness, and emissions of heavy-duty trucks; 5) component technology development in the areas of hydrogen production, storage, and utilization; 6) geothermal technology innovation in the areas of drilling, energy conversion, fracture detection and analysis, heat recovery systems, by-product recovery, and waste management. All information regarding the solicitation will be posted on the DOE Golden Field Office Home Page at http://www.eren.doe.gov/golden/solicitations.htm. It is DOE's intention not to issue hard copies of the solicitation.***** Posted 11/04/98 (W-SN268594). (0308)

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