ARPA-E Archived Funding Opportunities

DE-FOA-0000470: Plants Engineered To Replace Oil (PETRO)

Technologies for low-cost production of advanced biofuels are limited by the small amount of available energy captured by photosynthesis and the inefficient processes used to convert plant matter to fuel. PETRO aims to create plants that capture more energy from sunlight and convert that energy directly into fuels. ARPA-E seeks to fund technologies that optimize the biochemical processes of energy capture and conversion to develop robust, farm-ready crops that deliver more energy per acre with less processing prior to the pump. If successful, PETRO will create biofuels for half their current cost, finally making them cost-competitive with fuels from oil.s.

Documents

PETRO FOA Mod 003_6.27.2011 (Last Updated: 4/20/2011 09:41 AM ET)
PETRO Yield Workbook Mod 001 4.14.2011: The workbook is provided as a template to assist the applicant in calculating the energy yield of the fuel in terms of carbon flux through the crop into the fuel molecules. (Last Updated: 4/20/2011 08:34 AM ET)
PETRO Cost Analysis Workbook Mod 001 4.14.2011: The workbook is provided as a template to assist the applicant in estimating the production cost of the plant derived fuel from planting of the crop to extraction of the fuel molecules. (Last Updated: 4/20/2011 09:20 AM ET)

Previous Versions

SF-424: Application for Federal assistance. (Last Updated: 6/14/2011 04:53 PM ET)
SF424A: High Level Budget Spreadsheet. Must provide separate tabs by yearly period and total amount. Applicants must also provide tabs for the yearly and total budgets for any subawardees that are expected to perform 10% or more of the total project costs. (Last Updated: 6/17/2011 02:27 PM ET)
Budget Justification: Detailed budget spreadsheet. Must provide separate tabs by yearly period and total amount. Applicants must also provide tabs for the yearly and total budgets for any subawardees that are expected to perform 10% or more of the total project costs. (Last Updated: 6/17/2011 08:52 AM ET)
Budget Justification Guidance (Last Updated: 6/17/2011 08:52 AM ET)
NEPA Questionnaire: National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) compliance certification form. (Last Updated: 6/14/2011 04:52 PM ET)
Public Summary Form: Public (non-confidential) project summary in paragraph format to be released to the public in the event an award is made (Last Updated: 6/14/2011 04:52 PM ET)
Sample Indirect Rate Proposal (Last Updated: 6/14/2011 04:53 PM ET)
Summary Slide: Project summary in PowerPoint format (Last Updated: 6/14/2011 04:53 PM ET)

Contact Information

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Responses to questions are posted to the FAQs webpage.

Submission Deadlines

Concept Paper Submission Deadline: 5/19/2011 5:00 PM ET
Full Application Submission Deadline: 7/18/2011 5:00 PM ET
View Full Application Reviewer Comments Period: 8/23/2011 12:00 PM ET – 8/25/2011 5:00 PM ET