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U.S. Department of Energy

National Energy Technology Laboratory Office of Electricity Request for Information (RFI)

DE-FOA-0003549

“De-risking Innovative Grid Technologies to Facilitate Adoption of Solutions that Promote Reliability, Resilience, Security, and Affordability” Purpose: The purpose of this Request for Information (RFI) is to obtain input to inform planning of the Office of Electricity’s Applied Grid Transformation Solutions (AGTS) program. The AGTS program was initiated in 2023 with a focus on facilitating the adoption of innovative grid technologies that broaden the reliability, resilience, security, and affordability of the Nation’s electricity delivery infrastructure as it is being transformed to meet a more dynamic, decentralized, and complex operating environment, including new and emerging threats and challenges.

Through assembling and enhancing test bed capabilities to safely stress test advanced grid technologies in extreme conditions and identify research and development (R&D) needs, assessing pilot demonstrations in integrated and operational environments to document best practices and capability gaps, and developing decision-making tools and resources for a variety of stakeholders, the AGTS program aims to de-risk innovative grid technologies, close the loop on grid R&D and innovation, and increase awareness of advanced grid solutions that can accelerate grid modernization and facilitate its transformation.

This is solely a request for information and is not a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). U.S. DOE is not accepting applications to this RFI.

To Locate the RFI: The full text and instructions for the RFI can be obtained at:

https://www.fedconnect.net/fedconnect?doc=DE-FOA-0003549&agency=DOE Please be sure to go to FedConnect and read the entire RFI document.

Responses Due: Responses to this RFI must be submitted electronically to: DOE-OE-AGT@hq.doe.gov with the subject line “DE-FOA-0003052_RFI” no later than 5:00 p.m. (ET) on February 18, 2025.

Responses must be provided as attachments to an email. It is recommended that attachments with file sizes exceeding 25MB be compressed (i.e., zipped) to ensure message delivery. Responses must be provided as a Microsoft Word (.docx) or PDF attachment to the email, and no more than 15 pages in length, 12-point font, 1-inch margins. Only electronic responses will be accepted.

For ease of replying and to aid categorization of your responses, please copy and paste the RFI questions, including the question numbering, and use them as a template for your response. Respondents may answer as many or as few questions as they wish and may delete unanswered questions.

Respondents are requested to provide the following information at the start of their response to this RFI:

1. Contact person’s first and last name

2. Contact person’s title

3. Contact person’s organization / institution name, street address, city, state, and zip code

4. Contact person's phone number and e-mail address

5. Which category best describes your organization / institution?

a. Electric cooperative utility

b. Electric municipal/public power utility

c. Small investor-owned electric utility (<4,000,000-megawatt hours electricity sales per year)

d. Other investor-owned electric utility

e. Other energy provider (solar, wind, hydropower, etc.)

f. Energy sector vendor solution provider

g. Energy sector service provider

h. Other commercial entity

i. Not-for-profit national trade association

j. State or local government entity

k. Academic or research organization

l. Non-profit community-based organization

m. U.S. National laboratory

n. Other, please specify:

This is solely a request for information and is not a NOFO. U.S. DOE is not accepting applications to this RFI.