NOTE: The following Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) cancels, replaces, and restates the existing FOA for demonstration of integrated biorefinery operations and includes key changes, such as changing the previously scheduled submission date from May 29, 2009 to June 30, 2009.

Initial Application Step

Applicants are to submit Notice of Intent to Apply by May 29, 2009.

Full Application Submission Date: June 30, 2009

Anticipated Notice of Selection: December 2009

Anticipated Award Date: No later than September 30, 2010

Total Funding Available: $480,000,000

Maximum Award Size: $25,000,000 for pilot-scale projects and $50,000,000 for demonstration-scale projects

Anticipated number of awards: 10-20

Program Description

The intent of this FOA will be to select integrated biorefinery projects that have the necessary technical and economic performance data that validates their readiness for the next level of scale-up. In general, “integrated biorefineries” employ various combinations of feedstocks and conversion technologies to produce a variety of products, with the main focus on producing biofuels and bioproducts. Co- or by-products can include additional fuels, chemicals (or other materials), and heat and power. For the purpose of this FOA, the term “integrated biorefinery” is a facility that uses an “acceptable feedstock” (as defined), to produce a biofuel or bioproduct as the “primary product” (as defined) and may produce other products including additional fuels, chemicals (or other materials), and heat and power as co-products. These integrated biorefineries would produce, as their primary product, a liquid transportation fuel that supports, depending on topic area, meeting the renewable or advanced biofuels portion of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA) Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS) or, depending on topic area, a bioproduct that substitutes for petroleum-based feedstocks and products. DOE encourages applications that propose novel or breakthrough technologies and those that include appropriate collaboration between and among industry, academia, and DOE National Laboratories, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) or other government-funded facilities.

Cost Share

Pilot-scale projects (Topic Areas 1, 2, and 5): The applicant must provide a minimum cost share of 20% of the total project budget and recipient cost share funds must come from non-Federal sources unless otherwise allowed by law. However, applicants who propose and provide justification for cost share as low as 10% shall be considered.

Demonstration-scale projects (Topic Areas 3, 4, and 6): The applicant must provide a minimum cost share of 50% of the total project budget and recipient cost share funds must come from non-Federal sources unless otherwise allowed by law. However, applicants who propose and provide justification for cost share as low as 25% shall be considered.

Topic Areas

Topic Area	Scale	Acceptable Feedstock Examples	Primary Product	Legislative Authority	Greenhouse Gas Reduction Requirements	Anticipated Award Size
1	Pilot	Algae, Lignocellulosic Biomass	Biofuel	EPAct 2005, Section 932	No minimum, must provide analysis	$15-25 million
2	Pilot	Algae, Lignocellulosic Biomass	Bioproduct	EPAct 2005, Section 932	No minimum, must provide analysis	$15-25 million
3	Demonstration	Algae, Lignocellulosic Biomass	Biofuel	EPAct 2005, Section 932	No minimum, must provide analysis	$40-50 million
4	Demonstration	Algae, Lignocellulosic Biomass	Bioproduct	EPAct 2005, Section 932	No minimum, must provide analysis	$40-50 million
5	Pilot	Any renewable biomass except corn starch	Biofuel	EISA 2007, Section 207	Minimum 80% reduction over comparable motor vehicle fuel	$15-25 million
6	Demonstration	Any renewable biomass except corn starch	Biofuel	EISA 2007, Section 207	Minimum 80% reduction over comparable motor vehicle fuel	$40-50 million