Clean Energy and Power
Solar Recycling Research & Development
Agency NameDepartment of Energy
Funding Amount$20,000,000.00
Bureau Name
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Funding Mechanism
Cooperative Agreements and Management and Operating Contracts at National Laboratories
New?
Yes
Funding Mechanism
Cooperative Agreements and Management and Operating Contracts at National Laboratories
Funding Amount Notes
Period of Availability
Available until expended
Recipients
(A) An institution of higher education; (B) a National Laboratory; (C) a Federal research agency; (D) a State research agency; (E) a research agency associated with a territory or freely associated State; (F) a Tribal energy development organization; (G) a Tribe; (H) a Tribal organization; (I) a Native Hawaiian community-based organization; (J) a nonprofit research organization; (K) an industrial entity; (L) any other entity, as determined by the Secretary; and (M) a consortium of two or more entities described in (A) through (L).
Program Description
To award financial assistance to eligible entities for research, development, demonstration, and commercialization projects to create innovative and practical approaches to increase the reuse and recycling of solar energy technologies.
Eligible Uses
Projects aimed at increasing the reuse and recycling of solar energy technologies, including: (i) increasing the efficiency and cost effectiveness of the recovery of raw materials from solar energy technology components and systems, including enabling technologies such as inverters; (ii) minimizing potential environmental impacts from the recovery and disposal processes; (iii) advancing technologies and processes for the disassembly and recycling of solar energy devices; (iv) developing alternative materials, designs, manufacturing processes, and other aspects of solar energy technologies and the disassembly and resource recovery process that enable efficient, cost effective, and environmentally responsible disassembly of, and resource recovery from, solar energy technologies; and (v) strategies to increase consumer acceptance of, and participation in, the recycling of photovoltaic devices.
sam.gov link
https://sam.gov/fal/3f75036824054409bfe2bcf24b45d8f2/view
Statutory Location
41007
Federal Cost Share Requirement
TBD