Department of Energy Funding
We've compiled our DOE funding guidance and wanted to share that in case it is helpful. This has been through pretty extensive conversations and back and forth with OCED and EPA, as well as internal conversations and feedback from our team so while there are still areas we could adjust and update, we're feeling much better about where it lands.
Our team created a 1-pager that tries to give a key summary of allowable and non-allowable activities and ways of reviewing this. The 1-pager then links to the following documents:
Requirements and Guidance for DOE Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) Funding
To complement the ERA dashboard, our team created GIS maps that include rural/remote areas and also add mine lands for each state in EPA Region 10 - Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington.
Examples of allowable activities - this attempts to take all of the guidance and rules from OCED and use example TCTAC activities. OCED reviewed an earlier version of this and then we continued to update it from the FAQs and additional conversations with OCED and EPA, but the final draft is our own best understanding.
We know some pieces of this like the FAQs will continue to get updated and we anticipate our example document may update as our partners do activities that are supported by the OCED documentation, but we feel pretty good about our understanding and being able to carry out more activities that support communities in achieving their energy goals using this guidance. If it would be helpful to talk through it, there are a few key understandings that might not fully come through just from the written text so please let me know and I'd be happy to set up a meeting to discuss.