Press Releases

The American-Made Solar Prize Round 8 is a $4 million competition designed to support U.S. solar manufacturing and address challenges to rapid, equitable solar energy deployment by incentivizing hardware and software development.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today awarded $700,000 total to seven Phase 2: Create winners of the Manufacture of Advanced Key Energy Infrastructure Technologies (MAKE IT) Prize Strategies Track. The winners of the Strategies Track will build interest, engagement, and community involvement around clean energy manufacturing by supporting communities that are developing customized roadmaps to bring vibrant manufacturing activity to their region.

This week's awards: Long-Duration Energy Storage (LDES) Demonstrations Program's Multiday Iron Air Demonstration (MIND)

The DOE OTT and Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization awarded four startups and one incubator over $160,000 in cash prizes for their groundbreaking energy technologies through the Summer 2024 EPIC Pitch Competition.

DOE announced the reopening of five voucher opportunities to accelerate clean energy technology adoption and launch two new VOs with $15 million in available funding to support manufacturers via the Voucher Program.

Fifteen student teams from across the country were selected as finalists for the AlgaePrize 2023–2025 competition. As the nation’s premier algal-based student research competition, the AlgaePrize challenges students to pursue innovative ideas for the development, design, and invention of technologies within the commercial algae value chain. The 15 teams are presently conducting their proposed research and will provide research updates over the next few months. As we follow their progress, below are three facts to fuel your algae curiosity.

TCF Open Voucher Call will connect innovators with National Lab expertise and capabilities to accelerate commercialization of technological breakthroughs

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) awarded an additional $2.18 million in funding to four additional projects as part of the Feedstock-Conversion Interface Consortium (FCIC) 2023 Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) call. Funded and led by BETO, the FCIC is a consortium of researchers at nine national laboratories dedicated to reducing the technical risks of biorefinery scale-up. This funding opportunity included competitively selected CRADAs between FCIC partner laboratories and partners from industry and academia interested in leveraging the capabilities of the FCIC.

In 2023, the company negotiated a license agreement for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL’s) deacetylation and mechanical refining (DMR) process, a technology seen as important for sidestepping challenges with cellulosic biofuel facilities in the past. DMR uses a “gentle” alkaline bath and a mechanical shredder to prepare corn stover for ethanol fermentation—essential steps for accessing the energy-dense sugars locked inside.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Electricity (OE) today announced the selectees of $15 million in awards to show that new Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES) technologies will work reliably and cost effectively in the field.