OCED Publicizes as a lot as $31 Million for Small Corporations to Innovate American Vitality Utilized sciences

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OCED Publicizes as a lot as $31 Million for Small Corporations to Innovate American Vitality Utilized sciences

The Division of Vitality (DOE) Office of Clear Vitality Demonstrations (OCED) at the moment launched a model new funding solicitation for as a lot as $31 million to validate in operational conditions new vitality know-how components or strategies to be built-in in larger-scale vitality duties. This funding, part of OCED’s Pilot-scale Quick Operational Validation of key Vitality Infrastructure Utilized sciences (PROVE IT) program, objectives to assist small corporations as they innovate clear vitality utilized sciences. The aim of this technique is to assist and develop an ecosystem of small corporations providing new know-how choices and the workforce to satisfy the need of first-of-a-kind demonstration duties and the long term clear vitality infrastructure enterprise. This solicitation is issued beneath the OCED Small Enterprise Innovation Evaluation (SBIR) program.

This solicitation follows a Request for Knowledge issued in June 2023 requesting enter on the need and various of a program to assist pilot-scale operational validation. Responses largely acquired right here from small corporations and enterprise commerce groups representing a complete bunch of corporations, and overwhelmingly acknowledged a necessity for funding to validate, scale, and de-risk sides of a model new know-how sooner than being ready for an enormous demonstration effort or commercialization throughout the clear vitality infrastructure enterprise. In response to this ideas, OCED is launching the PROVE IT program.

This funding shall be open to small, neutral, residence corporations, and is reduce up into two topic areas. The first provides as a lot as $22 million for as a lot as 5 pilot-scale-ready carbon seize duties. The second provides as a lot as $9 million for as a lot as two long-duration vitality storage duties.

This solicitation builds on OCED’s present Carbon Seize Large-Scale Pilot Duties Program along with the Prolonged-Interval Vitality Storage Demonstrations Program. Be taught the full solicitation proper right here. Step 1 of functions are due by April 7, 2025, at 5 p.m., ET, with step 2 deadline to adjust to early June 2025. OCED is planning to host an informational webinar on February 5, 2025, at 3:30 p.m., ET to debate the funding announcement. Register for the webinar proper right here.