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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) is seeking white papers from prospective Partnership Intermediaries for the Partnership Intermediary Pilot. Through this Pilot, DOE is seeking to broaden the Department’s engagement with new organizations, increase cooperative or joint activities between DOE and small business firms, institutions of higher education, educational institutions, and non-traditional contractors and rapidly develop, scale, commercialize, and deploy technologies relevant to DOE’s mission.

A partnership intermediary (PI) is a state or local government or a nonprofit entity that is owned, funded, chartered, or operated in whole or in part by a state or local government.

Potential PI activities include facilitating and/or managing innovation hubs and/or public-private partnerships; performing technology and market research and scouting; acting as an independent facilitator between DOE programs and projects, DOE National Labs, and external solution providers; and facilitating rapid prototyping, demonstration, deployment, and/or manufacturing, in furtherance of DOE’s mission.

White papers are due January 3, 2023.