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Find similar grantsHARNESSING AUTONOMY FOR ENERGY JOINT VENTURES OFFSHORE SBIR/STTR (HAEJO SBIR/STTR) is sponsored by U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). Focuses on developing autonomous systems for offshore energy applications, enhancing energy production efficiency.
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Opportunity Listing - HARNESSING AUTONOMY FOR ENERGY JOINT VENTURES OFFSHORE SBIR/STTR (HAEJO SBIR/STTR) HARNESSING AUTONOMY FOR ENERGY JOINT VENTURES OFFSHORE SBIR/STTR (HAEJO SBIR/STTR) Agency: Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy Assistance Listings: 81. 135 -- Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy Last Updated: February 10, 2025 View version history on Grants.
gov This is Modification 01 to the NOFO: • Clarified the meaning of the Program Policy Factors in Section V. C DE-FOA-0003537 - HARNESSING AUTONOMY FOR ENERGY JOINT VENTURES OFFSHORE SBIR/STTR (HAEJO SBIR/STTR) To obtain a copy of the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) please go to ARPA-E eXCHANGE at https://arpa-e-foa. energy.
gov. To apply to this NOFO, Applicants must register with and submit application materials through ARPA-E eXCHANGE (https://arpa-e-foa. energy. gov/Registration.
aspx). For detailed guidance on using ARPA-E eXCHANGE, please refer to the ARPA-E eXCHANGE User Guide (https://arpa-e-foa. energy.
gov/Manuals. aspx).... ARPA-E will not review or consider application materials submitted through other means.
For problems with ARPA-E eXCHANGE, email ExchangeHelp@hq. doe. gov (with NOFO name and number in the subject line).
Questions about this NOFO? Check the Frequently Asked Questions available at http://arpa-e. energy.
gov/faq. For questions that have not already been answered, email ARPA-E-CO@hq. doe.
gov. The Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E), an organization within the Department of Energy (DOE), is chartered by Congress in the America COMPETES Act of 2007 (P. L. 110-69), as amended by the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 (P.
L. 111-358), as further amended by the Energy Act of 2020 (P. L.
116-260): “(A) to enhance the economic and energy security of the United States through the development of energy technologies that— (i) reduce imports of energy from foreign sources; (ii) reduce energy-related emissions, including greenhouse gases; (iii) improve the energy efficiency of all economic sectors; (iv) provide transformative solutions to improve the management, clean-up, and disposal of radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel; and (v) improve the resilience, reliability, and security of infrastructure to produce, deliver, and store energy; and (B) to ensure that the United States maintains a technological lead in developing and deploying advanced energy technologies.
” ARPA-E issues this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) under its authorizing statute codified at 42 U.S.C. § 16538. The NOFO and any cooperative agreements or grants made under this NOFO are subject to 2 C.
F. R. Part 200 as supplemented by 2 C.
F. R. Part 910.
ARPA-E funds research on, and the development of, transformative science and technology solutions to address the energy and environmental missions of the Department. The agency focuses on technologies that can be meaningfully advanced with a modest investment over a defined period of time in order to catalyze the translation from scientific discovery to early-stage technology.
For the latest news and information about ARPA-E, its programs and the research projects currently supported, see: http://arpa-e. energy. gov/.
ARPA-E funds transformational research. Existing energy technologies generally progress on established “learning curves” where refinements to a technology and the economies of scale that accrue as manufacturing and distribution develop drive improvements to the cost/performance metric in a gradual fashion.
This continual improvement of a technology is important to its increased commercial deployment and is appropriately the focus of the private sector or the applied technology offices within DOE. In contrast, ARPA-E supports transformative research that has the potential to create fundamentally new learning curves. ARPA-E technology projects typically start with cost/performance estimates well above the level of an incumbent technology.
Given the high risk inherent in these projects, many will fail to progress, but some may succeed in generating a new learning curve with a projected cost/performance metric that is significantly better than that of the incumbent technology. ARPA-E will provide support at the highest funding level only for submissions with significant technology risk, aggressive timetables, and careful management and mitigation of the associated risks.
ARPA-E funds technology with the potential to be disruptive in the marketplace. The mere creation of a new learning curve does not ensure market penetration. Rather, the ultimate value of a technology is determined by the marketplace, and impactful technologies ultimately become disruptive – that is, they are widely adopted and displace existing technologies from the marketplace or create entirely new markets.
ARPA-E understands that definitive proof of market disruption takes time, particularly for energy technologies. Therefore, ARPA-E funds the development of technologies that, if technically successful, have clear disruptive potential, e.g., by demonstrating capability for manufacturing at competitive cost and deployment at scale. ARPA-E funds applied research and development (R&D).
The Office of Management and Budget defines “applied research” as an “original investigation undertaken in order to acquire new knowledge…directed primarily towards a specific practical aim or objective” and defines “experimental development” as “creative and systematic work, drawing on knowledge gained from research and practical experience, which is directed at producing new products or processes or improving existing products or processes.
” ARPA-E encourages submissions stemming from ideas that still require proof-of-concept R&D efforts as well as those for which some proof-of-concept demonstration already exists. Submissions can propose a project with the end deliverable being an extremely creative, but partial solution.
ARPA-E’s Harnessing Autonomy for Energy Joint ventures Offshore (HAEJO) program envisions the creation of a U.S.-led marine energy hydrocarbon and industrial commodity supply from the deep-water offshore cultivation of seaweed at the gigaton scale. Such an industry would not require fresh water, artificial fertilizer, or any additional land use, and would not preclude any existing industry.
To achieve this vision, the goals of HAEJO are to support the development of new technologies to markedly improve the economics of offshore seaweed farms via sensors that enable autonomy, depth cycling infrastructure and vessel-based dewatering systems.
HAEJO also seeks to reduce risk and uncertainty in the agricultural biostimulant market and discover new applications that can grow U.S. industry, accelerating scaled investment in biomass cultivation technology and building the offtake market to at least one million tons per year. Specifically, this program will fund innovations in Smart Aquafarm Sensors and Offshore Infrastructure.
This program also targets the use of seaweed as biostimulants and their use in the energy supply chain, with possible application to row crops as a bridge market to unlock value and scale. Specifically, funded projects will determine the mechanisms of action for seaweed biostimulants and perform scientific evaluation of their efficacy, connecting to resultant reductions in synthetic fertilizer use.
ARPA-E is also open to technology development proposals enabling other energy-centric markets for seaweed and derivative products, including carbon removal and storage, provided a sufficient level of economic and energy impact can be achieved. To view the NOFO in its entirety, please visit https://arpa-e-foa. energy.
gov. Grantor contact information File name Description Last updated HAEJO_SBIR_STTR_CP_NOFO_-_modification_01. pdf NOFO_DE_FOA_0003537_HAEJO SBIR STTR_Modification 01 (HAEJO SBIR STTR CP NOFO - modification 01) Feb 10, 2025 02:21 PM UTC HAEJO_SBIR_STTR_CP_NOFO.
pdf NOFO_DE-FOA-0003537_HAEJO SBIR STTR Jan 14, 2025 03:18 PM UTC Link to additional information Archived: August 15, 2025 Funding opportunity number : Cost sharing or matching requirement : Funding instrument type : Opportunity Category Explanation : Category of Funding Activity : Science technology and other research and development Opportunity zone benefits
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