Energy Innovations Small Grant Program
Program Solicitation Notice
11-02T Natural Gas
(Transportation Program)
(Next solicitation for the the Electricity Program will be early June 2012.)
Grant Application Cutoff Date:
October 12, 2011
February 29, 2012 March 29, 2012
April 11 2012
The schedule for this funding cycle is as follows:
Pre-proposal Abstracts accepted:
(optional, see Grant Application Manual):
Through September 14, 2011
February 1, 2012
Grant Applications Received:
Through
October 12, 2011
February 29, 2012 March 29, 2012
April 11, 2012
Commission Approval of Awards:
Approx. 20 weeks from cutoff date
Notification of Awards:
Within 5 business days (email & web site)
Begin Executing Agreements:
August 2012 September 2012
Effective Date of this Solicitation: August 15, 2011 January 18, 2012 February 27, 2012 March 20, 2012
The Grant Application Manual for Solicitation 11-02T NG contains all of the current guidelines for this solicitation.
Download PDF Version of Grant Application Manual
(PDF file, 45 pages, 528 kb)
Download Word Version of Grant Application Manual
(MS Word file)
Download Standard Model Grant Agreement
(PDF file, 24 pages, 356 kb)
Download Model Grant Agreement for CA State Operated Academic Institutions
(PDF file, 19 pages, 295 kb)
Download Form D (Proposed Budget Summary)
(Microsoft Excel)
Summary of the significant changes that were implemented in this solicitation:
- The proposal must include a California-based Entity (CBE) as either the recipient or a subcontractor (see the discussion of CBEs in Exhibit 1).
- The proposal budget must allocate at least 80% of EISG funds to one or more CBEs.
- If the CBE is the recipient, the proposal budget must provide evidence that it will spend at least 80% of funds in California. If the recipient is not a CBE, the proposal budget must provide evidence that it will subcontract at least 80% of EISG funds to a CBE and that the CBE will spend the funds in California. The 80% applies only to EISG funds and does not include the Applicant's matching funds.
- No more than 20% of the EISG funds may be subcontracted to non-CBEs.
- The proposed budget must document expenditure of EISG funds in California by indicating expenditures to subcontractors identified in the CBE form (Exhibit 2). See Exhibits 1 and 2 for more information.
- The subject area, Environmentally Preferred Advanced Generation, has been removed.
- Proposals with 80% or more of EISG funds spent in California will receive 24 CBE preference points.