Deadline: 7-Dec-21
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the General Services Administration (GSA) have issued a request for information (RFI) to identify technologies that help reduce greenhouse gas emissions from commercial buildings.
The goal of this RFI is to support technologies and solutions that are ready for evaluation in occupied, operational buildings and have potential for equitable, widespread adoption in the U.S. marketplace.
Categories
This year’s RFI is focused on three broad categories of technologies that will enable commercial buildings to transition to net-zero carbon emissions:
- High-Performance/Low-Carbon Building Technologies and Solutions. Example technologies of interest include:
- Electrification of major loads
- Large-scale heat pump systems, including those that can operate in cold climates
- Retrofit heat recovery systems
- Innovative building envelope retrofit solutions
- Onsite Energy Generation and Storage Systems. Technologies of interest include:
- High-efficiency photovoltaics (PV)
- Building-integrated PV
- Solutions to better integrate PV and energy storage into building management systems
- Solar thermal and geothermal
- On-site distributed wind, and hydrogen fuel cells
- Greenhouse Gas or Carbon Reduction Technologies. Technologies of interest include:
- On-site carbon capture for fuel-fired processes
- Technologies that use next-generation refrigerants with low or no global warming potential
Criteria
Information submitted in response to this RFI must propose measurable success criteria, at the technology and whole building level that, where applicable:
- Reduce GHG emissions
- Reduce primary energy (including electricity and fuel)
- Enable on-site energy generation
- Achieve reasonable simple payback periods
- Demonstrate novel financing approaches.
For more information, visit https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/articles/request-information-technologies-reduce-greenhouse-gas-emissions