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Extreme Balance of System Hardware Cost Reductions (BOS-X)

Golden Field Office · Department of Energy

At a glance

Extreme Balance of System Hardware Cost Reductions (BOS-X) is a closed federal grant opportunity from the Golden Field Office (Department of Energy). The application deadline was June 9, 2011. The notice is unrestricted by applicant type, subject to any clarifications in the notice. Cost sharing or matching is required. It is funded under Assistance Listing 81.087 (Renewable Energy Research and Development).

Summary assembled from the official notice's fields. The official notice governs.

Key facts

  1. Apr 8, 2011Posted
  2. Jun 9, 2011Application deadline
Posted
Apr 8, 2011
Close date
Jun 9, 2011
Award floor
Not specified
Award ceiling
Not specified
Est. total funding
Not specified
Expected awards
Not specified
Cost sharing
Required
Funding instrument
Grant
Opportunity category
Discretionary

Typical awards for this program (SAM.gov listing for ALN 81.087, not this notice): $15,000 to $66,539,696

Who can apply

  • Unrestricted (any entity type)

A quick check against the listed applicant types — other requirements in the notice still apply.

Based on the published notice. Review the official notice for complete eligibility requirements.

What it funds

Official synopsis as published by the agency, formatted for readability.

The purpose of amendment 001 is to:

A) Update the Cost Impact tables in Section I Funding Opportunity Description, on pages 9-11, to clarify the cost components for electrical and hardware labor.

All other parts of the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) remain unchanged.

The areas which have changed with this modification are highlighted within the FOA.

The objective of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to significantly reduce the balance of system hardware cost component of Photovoltaic (PV) systems. This FOA directly supports the goals of the Department of Energys (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Solar Energy Technologies Program (SETP) and the SunShot Initiative, which has a goal to reduce the total cost (including installer margin) of solar energy systems by about 75 percent before the end of the decade. Under this FOA, the DOE SETP program is requesting applications for research, development, and demonstration of new components and system designs or the development of new building code language to overcome scientific, technological, and engineering barriers to achieving safe, very low cost, and high reliability balance of system hardware. While this FOA is meant to mainly address hardware and labor costs and not soft costs, advancements in hardware that may result in lower
soft costs (permitting, site preparation, etc.) are encouraged.

There will be four topics to which an application may be submitted under this FOA:

Topic 1: Transformational Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) Modules
Topic 2: Roof and Ground Mount Innovations
Topic 3: Transformational Photovoltaic System Designs
Topic 4: Development of New Wind Load Codes for PV Systems

The full Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is posted on the EERE eXCHANGE website at http://eere.energy.gov/financing/exchange. Applications must be submitted through the EERE eXCHANGE website to be considered for award. The applicant must first register and create an account on the EERE eXCHANGE website. A user Guide for the EERE eXCHANGE can be found on the EERE website at: http://eere.energy.gov/financing/exchange/Manuals.aspx after logging in to the system.

Information on where to submit questions regarding the content of the announcement and where to submit questions regarding submission of applications is found in the full FOA posted on the EERE eXCHANGE website.

Additional information from the agency ↗

Assistance Listing

What is an ALN?

Reported obligations under ALN 81.087

Historical data · not a prediction
FY24$1.08B
FY25$37.8M
FY26$517M est.
Source: SAM.gov Assistance Listing 81.087. Program-wide totals, not awards from this specific opportunity.

Who was funded under ALN 81.087

Historical data · not a prediction

Since October 1, 2023, 1,324 grant awards had funding actions under Renewable Energy Research and Development, with 599 sub-awards passed on to other organizations. These are program-wide awards, not awards from this specific notice.

  1. UNIVERSITY OF UTAH$73.5M
  2. PLUG POWER INC.$70.5M
  3. OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY$70.4M
  4. PROTON ENERGY SYSTEMS INC$54.4M
  5. AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS$45.3M
Recipients, states, recent awards and sub-awards →Source: USAspending.gov.

Agency contact (as published)

Golden Field Office
pvbos@go.doe.gov
720-356-1478

Quick answers

Who is eligible to apply for “Extreme Balance of System Hardware Cost Reductions (BOS-X)”?

The notice lists eligibility as unrestricted — open to any type of entity — subject to clarifications in the notice's additional eligibility information.

How do I apply for “Extreme Balance of System Hardware Cost Reductions (BOS-X)”?

Applications are submitted through the official source, not through GrantsJunction. Open the official notice on Grants.gov (opportunity DE-FOA-0000493), and review the full announcement and application package. Organizations applying through Grants.gov generally need an active SAM.gov registration and a Grants.gov account, which can take several weeks to set up.

Matched on shared Assistance Listings, agency, categories and eligible applicant types.