Advanced Battery Manufacturing Grants

For projects that support: Cell and Battery Pack Manufacturing Facilities; Advanced Battery supplier Manufacturing Facilities; Advanced Lithium ion Battery Recycling Facilities; and Electric Drive Component Manufacturing Facilities.

Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory  

www.energy.gov and, specifically,

Recovery Act – Electric Drive Vehicle Battery and Component Manufacturing Initiative (DE–FOA–0000028) 

$2 billion 

To be determined 

Various entities are eligible; however, the participation of original equipment manufacturers is required in several categories.  

Proposals for competitive funds are submitted by eligible entities to DOE and can represent a team of proposers. DOE selects projects to be funded and issues contracts. 

Varies; Applications due May 19, 2009 

Reporting requirements will be identified on the Federal Assistance Reporting Checklist, DOE F 4600.2, attached to the award agreement. See the NETL Business Page at http://www.netl.doe.gov for the proposed Checklist for this program.

Each award that includes Recovery Act funds will include conditions identifying the funding as coming from the Recovery Act, and reference the specific awardee reporting responsibilities mandated by Section 1512c. of the Recovery Act and the Office of Management and Budget. Awardees will be required to separately track and monitor Recovery funds as such funds cannot be commingled with non–Recovery Act funds. New York will be one of 16 states that the federal General Accounting Office (GAO) will closely monitor. Criteria include how states and localities are using the act’s funds and whether they are, among other things, (1) preserving and creating jobs and promoting economic recovery; (2) assisting those most impacted by the recession; (3) investing in transportation, environmental protection, and other infrastructure that will provide long–term economic benefits; and (4) stabilizing state and local government budgets in order to minimize and avoid reductions in essential services and counterproductive state and local tax increases. Energy related projects that involve innovative technologies – thereby carrying risks that manufacturers may not be able to actually deliver the intended products – will also receive special attention and intensified monitoring from the GAO.

New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA); Empire State Development 

www.recovery.ny.gov  

www.nyserda.org/economicrecovery

www.empire.state.ny.us