Opportunity Information: Apply for DE FOA 0002471
This opportunity is a Request for Information (RFI) issued by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) through the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), specifically the Weatherization and Intergovernmental Programs Office (WIP). Rather than offering grant funding through a traditional competitive application, the DOE is asking for written input from the public to help shape and improve how energy savings performance contracting (ESPC) is supported and used across the public sector. The focus is on the MUSH market, meaning municipalities, universities, schools, and hospitals, which are major public and institutional building owners with significant energy use and large opportunities for cost-effective efficiency upgrades.
DOE is seeking responses from public and nonprofit organizations with hands-on expertise in ESPC, especially practitioners who actively work with state energy offices to design, administer, and improve state-level ESPC programs and the processes that make them work in practice. In other words, they are looking for real-world lessons from groups that understand where ESPC succeeds, where it gets stuck, and what kinds of technical assistance, program design choices, procurement approaches, and administrative supports help public entities actually move projects from concept to contract to completed installation and verified savings.
The broader purpose of the RFI is to strengthen ESPC as a tool that MUSH stakeholders can use to achieve multiple benefits at once. DOE is explicitly interested in maximizing energy savings and improved building performance, but also in outcomes like increased productivity, reduced operating costs, stronger local economic impacts, and workforce development. That framing signals that DOE is thinking beyond simple energy metrics and wants feedback on how ESPC programs can be structured to drive community and labor benefits while still maintaining solid project economics and reliable performance.
Key administrative details are straightforward. The funding opportunity title is "Request for Information (RFI): Supporting Energy Savings Performance Contracting in the Public Sector" and the opportunity number is DE-FOA-0002471. It is categorized as "Other" rather than a typical grant or cooperative agreement competition, and eligibility is listed as unrestricted, reflecting that DOE is soliciting information broadly rather than limiting participation to a narrow applicant pool. The associated CFDA number is 81.041, and the issuing agency is identified as the Golden Field Office. While the source record includes an "Award Ceiling" value, this RFI itself is not presented as a funding announcement with expected awards; its main deliverable is stakeholder input that DOE can use to improve future program support and implementation.
Responses had to be submitted electronically by 5:00 PM Eastern Time on August 25, 2021, by emailing ESPCSupportRFIDOEWIP@ee.doe.gov. DOE also points respondents to the full RFI text on EERE Exchange (https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/), where the detailed questions and requested content would be listed. The RFI is issued under OMB Control Number 1910-0400, indicating it is an approved federal information collection request and that DOE is conducting the outreach within established federal paperwork and public input requirements.Apply for DE FOA 0002471
- The Golden Field Office in the energy sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Request for Information (RFI): Supporting Energy Savings Performance Contracting in the Public Sector" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 81.041.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2021-08-04.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2021-08-25. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $2.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted.
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