OpportunityTitle: Solar Big Data and Informatics Request for Information
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: This RFI is not accepting applications for financial assistance or financial incentives.
Description: In order to reduce solar transaction costs (soft costs) and increase transparency and efficient pricing, the U.S. Department of Energy?s SunShot Initiative is exploring best strategies to support, expand, and streamline competitive and non-competitive efforts in the solar industry related to collecting, securing, managing, exchanging, and monetizing solar datasets, across the value chain in the U.S. from project origination to grid integration, operations, and decommissioning. Improved data availability reduces informational asymmetries, accelerates the maturity of solar related products and services, and increases solar deployment. Areas of key interest center on technical, economic, administrative, and legal barriers and opportunities to reduce costs of capital, lower operational risks, protect consumers, and increase efficient market activities. The purpose of this Request for Information (RFI) is to gather feedback from stakeholders prior to DOE potentially issuing a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA). This RFI is not a FOA; therefore, DOE is not accepting applications at this time. All responses to this RFI must be provided as an attachment to an email message addressed to solardata@ee.doe.gov. Responses must be received no later than 5:00 PM EDT on April 10, 2015. The full content of this RFI can be found on the EERE Exchange website at https://eere-exchange.energy.gov.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: solardata@ee.doe.gov
GrantorContactText: Solar Big Data and Informatics&lt;br/&gt;solardata@ee.doe.gov&lt;br/&gt;
CloseDateExplanation: This is a Request for Information (RFI) only.  EERE will not pay for information provided under this RFI and no project will be supported as a result of this RFI.