DOE Reply

Mr. Diji Jayakaran

Nedunghayil House

Vennala P.O.

Ernakulam

Kerala, India

Dear Mr. Jayakaran:

Thank you for your January 27, 2010, e-mail to the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) regarding your new rotary engine concept. The Department is always gratified to see inventors addressing pressing energy issues and is pleased to examine innovative clean energy concepts.

In its Vehicle Technologies Program, EERE is active in many facets of advanced vehicle technologies and fuels development, and is very interested in engine combustion and emission control innovations. Our website at eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/technologies/engines/index.html, can provide you with updates on our research in automotive engine technology. Since we are asked to consider many clean energy and fuel-saving concepts, we use a competitive process to review ideas that are in support of our programs. If you require funding assistance to develop your rotary engine concept, then we suggest that you select “Financial Opportunities” in the above page's main menu, which links to financial opportunities associated with our program. The financial opportunities site contains a link to EERE’s Project Management Center at the Department's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), which periodically issues competitive solicitations for research and development on technologies of interest. All Vehicle Technologies Program solicitations are issued and awarded through DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) in Morgantown, West Virginia, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and EERE periodically posts its solicitations on the NETL site.

Other “related opportunities” listed on the financial opportunities page, such as DOE’s Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR), may be open only to U.S. citizens. You may wish to contact your own government’s representatives to inquire about programs to assist inventors. Alternatively, you might collaborate with a U.S.-based firm on a competitive solicitation and become part of the development of energy-saving technologies. At the financial opportunities website, you can learn of our program’s active solicitations, and forge potential collaborative opportunities as grant and award recipients become known. The Vehicle Technologies Program recently published a notice of intent to issue potential opportunity DE-FOA-000239, entitled, “FY2010 Vehicle Technologies Program Wide Broad Agency Announcement” covering engines and powertrains, as well as fuels, electric vehicle systems, and materials technologies. You may wish to bookmark the financing website for future reference, and to monitor this and other related funding opportunities.

Thank you again for writing the Department of Energy. We hope this information has been helpful.

Sincerely,

Kenneth C. Howden

Technology Development Manager

Vehicle Technologies Program

Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

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