Manufacturing

AMMTO, BTO, and OE FY22 Multi-topic FOA

This multitopic FOA is a joint effort between EERE’s Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO), the Building Technologies Office (BTO), and DOE’s Office of Electricity (OE).

Specifically, the goals of this multi-topic FOA are to:
• Validate and demonstrate next generation materials and manufacturing processes including domestic pilot demonstrations and related technologies to support the transition to U.S. manufacturing;
• Enable environmentally and socially responsible domestic manufacturing with diversified domestic supply of feedstocks including from recycled goods; and
• Mature nascent technologies, processes, and methods that improve the performance and market penetration of clean energy technologies and emerging building efficiency technologies.

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Launch Alaska – Tech Deployment

The Tech Deployment Track is an eight month accelerator program
that compresses the time, proximity, and attention required to forge partnerships,
identify projects, and move promising climate tech companies toward deployment
of their products or services in Alaska. Our focus is companies having a real impact on climate change who work on solutions in energy, transportation, or industry. However, we are open to any climate tech company who feels they have a market in Alaska.

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Destination Decarbonization Challenge

The Destination Decarbonization Challenge is a case study competition open to undergraduate students who want to get involved in the energy industry, solve challenges surrounding carbon emissions in their local region, and win some prize money along the way!

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Science and Technology Policy Fellowship

The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) Science and Technology Policy Fellowship offers candidates an opportunity to learn about the federal government and its role in advancing renewable energy with the Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in Washington, D.C. Participants will use their expertise to support solar energy research and development by guiding strategy, designing funding programs, and managing SETO-funded projects in the following areas:

  • Photovoltaic technologies
  • Concentrating solar-thermal power technologies
  • Grid systems integration technologies
  • Behavioral science, strategic analysis, and technical assistance
  • Manufacturing and technology transfer
  • Environmental justice and finance
  • Communication and stakeholder engagement
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Climate Transformation Fund 2023

The Milkywire Climate Transformation Fund (CTF), launched in 2021, is a charitable fund that supports pioneering projects needed to reach global net zero. Our ambition is guided by an impact-first approach, meaning we are searching for solutions with the greatest potential long-term impact that actually reduce CO₂ emissions rather than focus on carbon compensation claims.

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Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF)

The Department of Energy is soliciting applications for the Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23) Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) Base Annual Appropriations National Laboratory call, Core Laboratory Infrastructure for Market Readiness (CLIMR). The goal of TCF is to improve America’s energy competitiveness and security by accelerating commercialization and the shepherding of critical energy technologies from the lab to the market, where the private sector will continue to innovate. DOE expects to make $17.3-$20.4 million in federal funding available for awards under this multi-office lab call, issued jointly by OTT and several DOE technology offices. Only National Labs are eligible for direct funding, but private sector can join the Teaming Partner List or reach out to your contacts at the national lab Technology Transfer Offices to let them know you are interested in partnering.

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Y Combinator: Request for Startups

Y Combinator has funded well over 100 climate tech startups, and together they are worth over $10B. Many of the best ideas we’ve funded were ones that surprised us, so don’t feel like you need to work on one of these ideas in order to apply to the batch. The overall goal of YC is to help startups really take off. They arrive at YC at all different stages. Some haven’t even started working yet, and others have been launched for a year or more. But whatever stage a startup is at when they arrive, our goal is to help them to be in dramatically better shape 3 months later.

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Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle

Harvard Climate Entrepreneur’s Circle is a selective incubation program for high-potential ventures working to address climate change. Climate Circle participants have access to world-class coaching, legal counsel, warm connections to industry leaders, and a peer group of ventures that are all working on innovative solutions to tackle climate change.

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American-Made Program Sponsorship

The American-Made Program facilitates prizes that help to create partnerships that connect entrepreneurs to the private sector and the DOE national labs. The AMC program currently represents more than 16 offices within the DOE, 300+organizations, and more than $100M in cash prizes and support. This program supports 30+ unique prize challenges consisting of prizes that advance numerous energy technologies including solar, water, geothermal, hydrogen, buildings, transportation, wind, and more. These prizes also advance community development, clean energy capacity, new business creation, technology commercialization, and energy justice initiatives.

NREL is seeking sponsors to engage with American-Made and DOE in several specific ways:

  • Work with us in developing a co-sponsored prize challenge
  • Work with us on a new Lab MATCH prize that is focused on lab IP commercialization
  • Work with us on bringing a new American-Made Learning Platform to life
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AWS Clean Energy Accelerator

The AWS Clean Energy Accelerator 3.0 (CEA 3.0) is an equity-free business acceleration program delivered over 14- weeks. The hybrid program is designed to support innovative mature startups that develop clean energy solutions by accelerating their impact, increasing their access to resources, and expanding their reach.

Over the 14-week period, the chosen finalists will participate both in person and virtually. They will receive technical, business, and go-to-market mentorship from AWS; up to $100,000 each in AWS Promotional Credit1 through AWS Activate to kick-start their data and operations transformation in the cloud. Additionally, the selected startups will gain access to the AWS Digital Innovation team, who can guide startups in using Amazon’s Culture of innovation and Working backwards mechanism to achieve solution alignment and accelerate pilots. The finalists will also receive visibility and overall guidance from supporting partners such as The Climate Pledge Fund and others.

CEA 3.0 will focus its technology search on the following challenge areas: Battery Storage, Hydrogen (production, transportation and storage solutions), Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS), Advanced Materials, and Energy Security.

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4ward Accelerator

4ward’s main goal with its accelerator program is to help companies make serious progress, meaning getting traction, customers, revenue etc… so you can raise your round – or even grow to profitability without needing VC.

4ward focuses first on business models and growth .It provides resources, guides and proven growth hacking strategies and tailored outreach templates to help you land landmark clients and/or pilots, build your pipeline and power your growth. Adding 2-3+ big name corporate customers or pilots is the goal of this intense 10 week program.

 

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