Competition/Prize

Transit Tech Lab

The Transit Tech Lab provides a pathway for growth-stage companies to efficiently solve public transportation challenges. Successful companies have an opportunity to pilot their technology with participating transit systems in the New York region.

Applications will be accepted for the Human Capital Challenge and the Operational Efficiency Challenge.

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American-Made EAS-E Prize

The Equitable and Affordable Solutions to Electrification (EAS-E) Home Electrification Prize provides up to $2.4 million in prizes for innovative solutions that advance electrification retrofits of residential homes across all building types and geographies. The goal of the EAS-E Prize is to support a suite of design solutions, tools, and/or technology innovations that make electrification more affordable and accessible in existing U.S. homes. Through this prize, the Building Technologies Office aims to create more opportunities and successes for electrification of the U.S. housing stock with a focus on equitable solutions for all homeowners—not only through affordability, but also by enabling solutions specific to dwellings more common in low-income and under-resourced communities.

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The Edge Prize (West Coast)

‍The Edge Prize is your opportunity to share what works, big or small, and find the others who want to join you, fund you, learn from you, or replicate your efforts locally. This is not a business plan competition. This is not a “pitch” competition. It’s not really a contest at all! This is about sharing what you’re already doing, why it’s working, and why it gives you hope.

We want to hear from anyone in Salmon Nation (California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Yukon, or Alaska) working on something that has a positive impact in your community. With additional resources and a supportive network, you know this solution could benefit more communities all over the bioregion and beyond.

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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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NACCHO Climate and Health Demonstration Sites

NACCHO supports local efforts to track, prevent, and mitigate the health effects of climate change, including: the incorporation of adaptation planning into land use, housing, and transportation design; preparing communities for extreme and unusual environmental events; and coordinating with local governments on all-hazards disaster planning. NACCHO, with support from the Climate and Health Program at the CDC, intends to award up to four entities for up to $20,000 each to support climate change and health adaptation initiatives at local organizations. Apply by Monday, December 12.

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Equinor Offshore Wind Ecosystem Fund (NYC)

The Fund is designed to provide historically marginalized and environmental justice areas and populations in New York City with opportunities to benefit from the emerging offshore wind industry. Throughout the development of this Solicitation, Equinor has worked closely with members of the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) and the Sunset Park Task Force to determine priority areas that will maximize the impact of the Fund by identifying and supporting stakeholders and geographies with critical needs. This includes supporting applications that make the offshore wind industry more accessible by furthering workforce development initiatives, creating obtainable career pathways, and/or elevating local businesses’ and individuals’ participation in the industry.

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Alberta Innovates Program Database (Canada)

Alberta Innovates offers a full-spectrum of supports for every stage of your innovation journey. We would be happy to connect with you to evaluate your project and determine where we can offer our assistance.

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Veterans Business Battle 2023

Each year, the event gives invited military veterans an opportunity to pitch business ideas to investors and lenders for a chance to raise capital. During the competition, finalists attend workshops geared toward businesses in early stages of development, have the opportunity to perfect their pitch and receive feedback from professionals, network with potential investors and learn from other entrepreneurial success stories. The competition also attracts a variety of investors, including groups that have earmarked capital specifically for this event.

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High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation

The program seeks industry partners interested in leveraging HPC resources to make advancements in the following areas:

For HPC4Mfg:

  • Improvements in manufacturing processes which result in significant national carbon emissions reduction and energy savings.
  • Improvements in semiconductor technologies that will result in operational energy efficiency improvements.
  • Carbon emissions reduction and efficiency improvements in energy conversion and storage technologies.
  • Reductions in CO2 or CO2-equivalent emissions.

For HPC4Mtls:

  • Advanced Materials for Carbon Conversion Applications
  • Advanced Structural Materials for Hydrogen Applications
  • Advanced Functional Materials for Hydrogen Applications
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Manufacturing Innovation Institute for Smart Manufacturing

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and  the Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute  (CESMII) are inviting proposals on projects that will demonstrate the application of integrated smart manufacturing (SM) technologies to improve energy productivity and operational efficiencies in the exemplar, end-to-end manufacturing supply chains that include several contributing small and mid-sized manufacturers (SMMs).  The supply chains may cover energy-intensive industries and/or industry verticals with a broad reach across the US.

Projects must support the development of a CESMII SM Playbook for manufacturers.  The playbook is intended to turn project outcomes into broadly-applicable guidelines for SMMs in identifying opportunities to leverage SM technology towards achieving higher levels of productivity and capacity, implementing those solutions, and training their workforce to leverage the solutions in their manufacturing jobs.

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Biological and Environmental Research (BER) Environmental System Science

The DOE program in Biological and Environmental Research (BER) is accepting applications for research in Environmental System Science (ESS). The goal of the ESS program in BER is to advance an integrated, robust, and scale-aware predictive understanding of terrestrial systems and their interdependent microbial, biogeochemical, ecological, hydrological, and physical processes.

This FOA will encompass three Science Research Areas: 1) improved understanding of hot spots and hot moments of biogeochemical cycling in terrestrial-aquatic interfaces; 2) investigations of cold-region ecosystem and watershed process responses to changing cold season climate drivers; and 3) synthesis studies using existing data that address testing of ESS relevant hypotheses and development of transferable insights across ecosystems, watersheds, and regions.

Pre-applications must be submitted by December 1, 2022 at 5:00pm ET.

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Research Opportunity in High Energy Physics (HEP)

The Department of Energy (DOE)’s Office of Science has released a funding solicitation for research in high energy physics. A total of $100 million will be used to support awards in this funding opportunity, with an annual range of $20,000 to $5,000,000 for awardees. 10 to 100 awards will be given, for an expected average award period of 3 years.

The HEP programs focuses on the energy frontier, the intensity frontier, and the cosmic frontier. In addition, research is also conducted in theoretical high energy physics, accelerator science and technology R&D, and detector R&D.

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