The USAID is awarding a worldwide Leader with Associate (LWA) Cooperative Agreement for the VOCational Training and Education for Clean energy, or VOC TEC.
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The idea behind this program is to increase the capacity of local stakeholders to build and sustain renewable energy investments in their local communities. This is to consist primarily of decentralized clean energy technologies and hybrid renewable energy and hydrocarbon systems.
The program will focus on distributed energy systems. The primary areas of focus are to be:
wind, solar PV, micro-hydro, and hybrid energy systems utilizing any of these three technologies along with fossil-fueled generators
Each project should have these components as part of their plan:
- developing local capacity to assemble
- design, install, operate, and maintain facility-specific or community-level micro-grid systems.
The agreement may be with a single institution or with a consortium of institutions. USAID estimates that the USAID/EGAT Energy Team contribution to this agreement will total approximately $3 million dollars over a five-year period from approximately FY2010 to FY2015. USAID anticipates the total ceiling will be $10 million ($3 million to the Leader Award and $7 million towards the Associate Awards).
| Funding Opportunity Number: | RFA-OAA-10-000011 |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Posted Date: | Sep 07, 2010 |
| Creation Date: | Sep 07, 2010 |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Oct 27, 2010 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Oct 27, 2010 |
| Archive Date: | |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Education Employment, Labor and Training Energy Environment |
| Category Explanation: | |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 1 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | |
| Award Ceiling: | $10,000,000 |
| Award Floor: | $0 |
| CFDA Number(s): | 98.001 -- USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | Yes |
For more information, contact:
William Sedlak
Contracts Specialist
Phone 202-712-4469
