Opportunity Information: Apply for DE FOA 0003445
This notice is an informational "Notice of Intent to Issue" a future Department of Energy funding opportunity focused on improving the reliability and resilience of the U.S. electric grid. The planned Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) will be titled "HARMONY: Human-Centric Analytics for Resilient and Modernized Power sYstems" (referenced as FOA no. DE-FOA-0003446 in the description). The core idea is to strengthen how the grid is planned, operated, and defended as uncertainty grows and as power systems become more dependent on digital information systems and networks.
The technical and operational emphasis is on human-centric analytics, meaning the tools, models, and decision-support capabilities funded under HARMONY are expected to focus not only on better analytics, but on how those analytics are communicated and used by real people who operate and make decisions about grid systems. The notice highlights the need to quantify risk and uncertainty and to clearly communicate those factors to decision-makers and human operators. This is meant to help predict, prevent, and mitigate major grid problems, particularly cascading failures where one disturbance triggers a chain reaction of outages or system instabilities.
From an outcomes standpoint, the opportunity is positioned around improving understanding of cascading failures and enabling better operational decisions under stress. That implies potential project areas such as enhanced situational awareness, probabilistic or uncertainty-aware modeling, operator-facing visualizations or explanations of risk, decision support for emergency response, and approaches that account for how humans interpret and act on information during fast-moving grid events. The notice also explicitly connects the challenge to the modern digital environment, suggesting the grid is facing increased complexity from interconnected networks, data streams, and potential cyber-physical interactions, all of which can amplify uncertainty and complicate operator decision-making.
Administratively, this posting is not the actual solicitation and is not requesting feedback or comments. It signals DOE's intent to release a formal FOA later. The agency listed is the National Energy Technology Laboratory, and the anticipated award instrument type is a cooperative agreement, which typically means DOE expects substantial involvement during the performance of the project (for example, active technical collaboration, milestones, and ongoing programmatic engagement). The opportunity is categorized under Energy, with CFDA (Assistance Listing) number 81.122, and eligibility is described as unrestricted, indicating a broad range of applicants may be able to apply once the full FOA is released.
The source record shows an award ceiling of 2 (as posted), an original closing date of 2025-12-31, and expected awards listed as 0, which is common for a notice of intent entry and may be a placeholder until the full FOA is issued with finalized funding levels, number of awards, topic areas, and submission requirements. The key takeaway is that DOE is preparing a competitive funding announcement aimed at developing and demonstrating analytics and decision-support methods that help humans manage grid risk and uncertainty, with the end goal of preventing or reducing the impact of cascading failures and improving overall grid resilience in a more digital, networked operating environment.Apply for DE FOA 0003445
- The National Energy Technology Laboratory in the energy sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Notice of Intent (NOI) related to "HARMONY: Human-Centric Analytics for Resilient & Modernized Power sYstems”" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 81.122.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2024-09-17.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-12-31. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $2.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted.
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