The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Electricity (OE) has announced funding opportunities for energy storage innovations and an upcoming energy storage research and testing facility. The Critical Facility Energy Resilience (CiFER) Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) supports large-scale demonstration and deployment of storage technologies to provide resiliency to critical facilities and infrastructure. This FOA is in coordination with DOE’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED)’�s Notice of Intent to fund $100 million for pilot projects. The opportunities also complement DOE‘s Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office (IEDO), which plans to announce a prize to accelerate market adoption for cost-effective thermal energy storage concepts and technologies for industrial applications and data centers.OE has also announced a Notice of Intendence (NOI) for $8 million in funding for up to four projects to address manufacturability challenges faced by energy storage technology developers.

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