Pilot your emerging tech at GSA

FY25 GSA, DOE RFI is officially closed.

The GSA Proving Ground (GPG) FY25 RFI seeks innovative, emerging, and sustainable technologies that enable energy efficiency and decarbonization in commercial buildings; contribute to a more efficient electric infrastructure; and improve resiliency and occupant health. Technologies selected for the GPG program will be piloted in one or more federal buildings and/or private sector facilities and evaluated by DOE National Labs.

Participation requirements

Technologies should be early- or underutilized-commercial and ready for evaluation in occupied, operational buildings.
For GSA-selected technologies, core equipment must be gifted to the federal government as outlined in 40 U.S.C. 3175 or provided via an alternative financing mechanism. Installation is funded by GSA.
For DOE-selected technologies, project costs are negotiated with the vendor and host site partners.

FY25 RFI timeline

August 22, 2024: Informational Webinar
- See the “GPG RFI Materials” (at right) to access the webinar slides and video.
September 13, 2024 at 11:59 pm ET: RFI Now Closed
March 2025: Finalists selected

FY25 technology focus areas

This year’s RFI seeks emerging and sustainable technologies that support:

Deep energy retrofits. Improve the energy efficiency and reduce the carbon footprint of an existing building through a specific energy conservation measure or ongoing monitoring and controls.
Examples of technologies of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Envelope retrofit solutions to manage solar heat gain, minimize air leakage, or reduce heating and cooling loads, or any combination of the foregoing
- Retrofit technologies to capture and manage waste heat
- Refrigerant leak prevention technologies and no or low global warming potential refrigerants
- Lighting and lighting control systems
- Technologies that enable easier retro- and continuous-commissioning
- Software or hardware, or both, that support load flexibility and grid-interactive efficient buildings
All-electric buildings and all-electric vehicle fleets. Eliminate the use of fossil fuels in buildings and vehicle fleet operations.
Examples of building technologies of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Larger-scale heat pumps appropriate for commercial retrofit applications, including cold climate zones
- Systems approaches to commercial boiler decarbonization
- Packaged heat pump systems with water heating or integrated with make-up air systems
- Technologies that minimize the need for electrical service upgrades, such as smart panels and smart circuits
Examples of fleet technologies of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Electric vehicle supply equipment (“EVSE”) charge management solutions
- Vehicle-to-everything solutions
- Systems or tools that enable EVSE data collection, reporting, or interconnection, or any combination of the foregoing, including:
  - Systems or tools that enable reservation and payment systems
  - Systems that leverage Open Charge Point Protocol to provide interoperability across charging network providers. Capabilities include single pane of glass dashboards, data and key performance indicator reporting, and other equipment-agnostic functionality
Healthy and resilient buildings. Enhance occupant comfort and building health, while minimizing climate-related and other vulnerabilities.
Examples of technologies of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Dynamic indoor environmental quality monitoring and control
- Novel methods to reduce the risk of disease transmission
- Enhancing resiliency and passive survivability
- Microgrids
- Water conservation and harvesting technologies that save water and support continued facility operation if water supply is disrupted
Low-embodied carbon building materials. Reduce lifecycle emissions associated with materials used for facility construction, renovation, and reuse.
Examples of solutions of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Low- or no-emissions materials or products that replace, supplement, or improve asphalt, concrete, glass, steel, insulation, roofing, gypsum wallboard, flooring materials, ceiling materials, or aluminum
  - Including mass timber and other bio-based solutions
- Solutions that reduce the overall lifecycle carbon emissions of a facility
- Innovative deconstruction and reuse technologies, products, or practices, such as materials specifically designed to be usable beyond their original lifecycle or installation site
Net-zero operations. Operate without fossil-fuel equipment through a combination of on-site renewables and off-site carbon-free electricity.
Examples of technologies and solutions of interest include, but are not limited to:
- On-site carbon-free energy generation, such as building-integrated photovoltaics, high-efficiency solar system designs, geothermal heating and cooling, and ground- and building-mounted wind turbines
- Carbon capture and storage
- On-site energy storage: battery, thermal, or green hydrogen
- Technologies that integrate on-site energy generation and storage with building management systems
- Solutions that simplify or reduce installation, operation and maintenance challenges, workload to enable net-zero facilities, or any combination of the foregoing
Packages of emerging and sustainable technology solutions. Packages or stacks of technologies from a single vendor or a team of multiple vendors that combine to create deeper energy or emissions reductions for a facility or campus.
Examples of solutions of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Any combination of the technologies described above
- Packages of technologies that support zero carbon emissions for data centers or critical facilities and backup generation for these facilities.
- Long-duration energy storage
- Data collection for and management of operational emissions and embodied emissions
- Power optimization measures (such as efficiency, generation, storage, and controls) that reduce peak power in buildings

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About GPG

The GSA Proving Ground enables GSA to make sound investment decisions in next-generation building technologies based on their real-world performance.

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DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) mission is to create and sustain American leadership in the transition to a global clean energy economy.