Funding to Commercialize Clean Energy Technologies
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is on a mission to curb carbon emissions, implement strategic solutions for environmental stewardship, reduce carbon footprints, and advance a low-carbon, sustainable future. Because technology transfer is critical to achieving this mission, funding opportunities from the DOE Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) are seeking cutting-edge solutions to advance transformative technologies in clean energy.
THE PROGRAMS
“In the history of the Department of Energy (DOE), there has never been a more exciting time for commercialization than now.”
-Vanessa Z. Chan, Chief Commercialization Officer and Director, Office of Technology Transitions, U.S. Department of Energy
Commercialize energy and climate resilience technologies
Do you have a promising clean energy or decarbonization solution? The Technology Commercialization Fund, with funding allocated from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, supports the demonstration, scaling, and technology transfer of innovative projects.
Make your innovation part of a sustainable energy future
Compete for technology development prizes and access training, teaming, and mentoring. Designed to accelerate transformative clean energy advancements, the American Made program aims to create connections among entrepreneurs, national, labs, and industry.
CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES
Re-X Before Recycling Prize
Individuals and teams can compete to identify opportunities and advance supply chain innovations in the U.S. that make end-of-use products more valuable by reusing, repairing, refurbishing, remanufacturing, and/or repurposing them.
Phase 1 entries close March 12, 2024.
The SOLVE IT Prize
Community change makers can compete to implement innovative clean energy solutions in a way that works best to address their unique needs and challenges through the Solutions for Lasting, Viable Energy Infrastructure Technologies (SOLVE IT) Prize.
Phase 1 entries close April 12, 2024.
Power at Sea Prize
Individuals can compete to develop a new system, subsystem, or component—powered in part by wave, tidal, ocean current, river, salinity gradients, or thermal gradients—from original conception, to teaming, to a testable stage of initial development.
Phase 1 entries close July 26, 2024.