Wind

Incubatenergy Labs 2023 Cohort

Incubatenergy Labs is built for startups to engage EPRI and electric power utilities in paid demonstration projects. A utilities summit and collaborative demonstrations program in one, the program links startup companies leading the advancement of electrification, decarbonization and grid modernization with utilities from around the world that have the capacity and desire to demonstrate and scale those innovations. We structured the program to give you maximum exposure to utilities and ensure that the results of a successful demonstration with one utility turns into opportunities with many. New for 2023 startups now have the possibility of demonstrations in the US, Canada, Europe, South America, or Latin America.

READ MORE

Advancing Climatetech and Clean Energy Leaders (ACCEL) – Greentown Labs

Greentown Labs and Browning the Green Space (BGS) are requesting applications from innovative startups with founding and executive teams that are primarily made up of BIPOC leaders who are developing climate solutions for sectors including electricity, transportation, buildings, manufacturing, and agriculture. Startups will focus on product and technology development, market development, capital raising, and management & team development throughout the accelerator, all while having access to Greentown Labs’ incubators and world-class mentors from both Greentown Labs and BGS’s networks.

READ MORE

Black Venture Institute

Black Venture Institute, co-created by BLCK VC, Operator Collective (OpCo), and Salesforce Ventures, is a unique fellowship and ongoing community designed to create opportunities for mid to senior-level Black operators and executives in the tech industry.

You’ll learn the foundations of investing and join a community of high-powered Black operators and technology executives who, together, will represent the future of black fund managers and angel investors across the country.

We are currently taking rolling applications for the Winter 2022/2023 cohort.

READ MORE

New York State Offshore Wind Training Institute – Workforce Training and Skills Development

Under this Program Opportunity Notice (PON), the New York State Energy Research & Development Authority (NYSERDA) is seeking proposals for training initiatives focused on addressing projected OSW workforce gaps and preparing workers for high growth jobs.  Training audiences may consist of existing and/or new workers. Individuals and entities that may apply as lead applicants for funding include technical/vocational high schools, community colleges, universities, labor unions, training and job placement intermediaries, community-based organizations and non-profit organizations as well as OSW Original Equipment Manufacturers, distributors, vendors, suppliers, developers, and trade associations with a demonstrated track record in technical training, job preparedness and/or placement of program graduates. Preference will be given to projects that include or are led by certified Minority- and Women-Owned Business Enterprises and/or Service-Disabled and Veteran-Owned Businesses.

READ MORE

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.

READ MORE

Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program: West Gate

West Gate supports innovators who have a technology concept in prototype stage at minimum that is aligned with NREL research and development areas and Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy strategic goals in the areas of advanced materials and manufacturing technologies, industrial efficiency and decarbonization, building efficiency, and solar energy production. Once selected to participate in West Gate, you will be uniquely matched to NREL and Colorado School of Mines expertise and capabilities to identify projects that will significantly de-risk your technologies in meaningful ways—leading to improved opportunities for your startup company to raise public or private funding.

READ MORE

Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program: Chain Reaction Innovations

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) will provide $3 million during a two-year period to support four to six teams of innovators. New teams will be selected each year to receive this two-year allocation. This funding will pay for fellowships that cover salary, benefits, use of laboratory equipment and office space, and guidance from Argonne researchers.

Innovators must focus on developing technology that will advance the development of clean energy and advanced manufacturing products and processes for which development requires overcoming complex scientific challenges that require a lengthy development cycle of about two years to reach the pre-commercial prototype stage.

READ MORE

Maryland Energy Innovation Accelerator

MEIA focuses on early-stage technology commercialization in partnership with Maryland-based Universities and Labs to support Maryland’s Clean Energy and Climate Goals. MEIA supports solar, wind, batteries, energy efficiency, grid modernization, carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS), and any other technology that reduces greenhouse gas emissions or provides negative emissions benefits in the electric, oil and gas, residential, commercial or industrial sectors. MEIA offers three programs to Maryland-based clean energy and climate technology inventors:  Pre-AcceleratorLaunchpad, and Accelerator.

READ MORE

Clean Energy Technology Deployment on Tribal Lands

Specifically, DOE’s Office of Indian Energy is soliciting applications from Indian Tribes, which include Alaska Native Regional Corporations and Village Corporations, Intertribal Organizations, and Tribal Energy Development Organizations to:
1) Install clean energy generating systems and/or energy efficiency measures for Tribal Buildings (Topic Area 1);
2) Deploy community-scale clean energy generating systems or community energy storage on Tribal Lands (Topic Area 2);
3) Install integrated energy systems for autonomous operation (independent of the
traditional centralized electric power grid) to power a single or multiple essential Tribal Buildings during emergency situations or for tribal community resilience (Topic Area 3).

READ MORE

Offshore Wind Workforce Education and Training Database

Welcome to the Offshore Wind Workforce Education and Training Database section. This database of resources and programs available to help learn about the offshore wind workforce, and  make it easy to quickly find institutions and programs that will help energize students about a offshore wind powered future and related concepts.

Use this database’s search feature by clicking on Institution Type, Location, and/or Global Wind Organization (gwo) certification below and selecting from the drop-down menus, or searching by keyword.

READ MORE

Visiting Faculty Program

The Visiting Faculty Program (VFP), formerly called Faculty and Student Teams (FaST), is designed to provide an opportunity for faculty members from institutions historically marginalized in STEM to enhance research capabilities and strengthen STEM education and learning practices to develop talent to contribute to the Department of Energy (DOE) research areas. VFP accomplishes this mission in two tracks: (1) VFP Research Collaboration Track and (2) VFP Teaching Initiative Track.

As a component of VFP’s Research Collaboration and Teaching Initiative tracks, selected university/college faculty members collaborate with DOE laboratory research staff on a research project of mutual interest. Additionally, faculty member participants may invite up to two students (one of which may be a graduate student) to join the project in the summer terms.

The Visiting Faculty Program (VFP) is now open for applications for the 2023 Summer Term. Applications are due January 10, 2023 at 5:00 PM ET.

READ MORE