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Opportunity Summary:

Recovery Act Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI) Round 3 (Funding Opportunity Number DE-FOA-0000042) was a U.S. Department of Energy initiative, administered through the National Energy Technology Laboratory, that used a cooperative agreement model to co-fund industry-led demonstrations of cleaner coal-based power technologies. The program was structured as a cost-shared partnership between government and private-sector project developers, with the larger aim of moving advanced coal technologies past technical and integration risks and into commercial readiness. While CCPI historically covered a range of advanced coal power approaches, this Round 3 announcement narrowed in on carbon management, specifically the capture of carbon dioxide from coal-based power generation and its sequestration or beneficial use at meaningful scale.

This particular posting was an amendment that re-opened an earlier Funding Opportunity Announcement originally issued on August 11, 2008. The amendment did three practical things: it reopened competition, it established a second application due date, and it made programmatic and administrative adjustments (including changes to the Model Cooperative Agreement used to govern selected awards). For applicants, the key schedule items were a requested Letter of Intent due no later than July 24, 2009 (with instructions referenced in the FOA), and a full application deadline of August 24, 2009 at 8:00 PM Eastern Time. The opportunity was posted June 9, 2009, with an archive date of October 9, 2009.

The core purpose of CCPI Round 3 was to demonstrate, at commercial scale and in a real commercial operating environment, coal-based power technologies that could capture CO2 and then either permanently sequester it (typically via geologic storage) or put it to beneficial use. DOE framed this as directly supporting broader federal climate technology goals by reducing CO2 emissions, and as an effort to prove that carbon capture could be integrated with reliable power production without making electricity unaffordably expensive. In other words, the government was not just funding lab research; it was paying to validate that these systems could work in the field, at scale, under real operating constraints.

DOE set out several performance-oriented targets and minimum thresholds that defined what a successful project needed to demonstrate. First, projects were expected to achieve at least 50 percent CO2 capture efficiency and show progress toward a longer-term 90 percent capture target, measured in a gas stream containing at least 10 percent CO2 by volume. Second, DOE emphasized cost performance through goals tied to the increase in cost of electricity (COE) relative to then-current (2008) practice: projects were to make progress toward keeping CO2 capture and sequestration impacts to less than a 10 percent COE increase for gasification-based systems and less than a 35 percent COE increase for combustion and oxy-combustion systems. Third, projects had to capture and sequester or beneficially use at least 300,000 tons of CO2 per year, with compliance determined using a 30-day running average. These requirements show that DOE was prioritizing solutions that were not only technically viable, but also scalable and economically defensible.

Another notable feature of the Round 3 description was DOE's interest in coordination with other federal carbon storage efforts. At the time, DOE was separately developing large-scale geologic sequestration field tests on the order of 1 million tons of CO2 per year. CCPI applicants were encouraged to consider integrating with those sequestration demonstrations if schedules aligned, for example by supplying CO2 to a nearby field test to reduce overall costs or streamline infrastructure. DOE also made clear that this kind of integration would require careful cooperation and coordinated management between project teams, implying that governance, operating responsibilities, and data-sharing would matter alongside the engineering.

From an administrative standpoint, the opportunity was categorized as discretionary funding and used cooperative agreements, which generally means DOE expected substantial involvement in project oversight, milestones, and decision points during execution (more so than a typical grant). The activity category fell under Energy, Recovery Act science and technology, and other research and development, with CFDA number 81.089 (Fossil Energy Research and Development). Eligibility was listed as unrestricted, meaning any type of entity could apply as long as it met any additional FOA conditions, but the presence of a cost-sharing requirement signaled that applicants needed significant non-federal funding committed and documented.

For support and access issues, the posting referenced FedConnect for the full announcement and provided points of contact, including the FedConnect HelpDesk (support@fedconnect.net) and a NETL contact, Raymond Johnson (johnson@netl.doe.gov). Overall, CCPI Round 3 was designed to de-risk and validate coal power with carbon capture at commercial scale, with hard targets for capture rate, annual CO2 volume handled, and progress toward cost containment, while leveraging public-private cost share to accelerate market readiness.

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