New York City’s premier cleantech incubator, ACRE, is soliciting solutions to address challenges in transportation, urban technologies, and energy generation. The focus areas of the competition include smart mobility, smart city, and smart grid technologies. In addition to cash, the winners would also be eligible to become members of the incubator.
Please note: Eligibility for this application is limited to U.S. educational institutions.
The Airforce Research Lab (AFRL) is inviting applications to enhance the nation’s war-fighting and peacekeeping capabilities. The 5 overarching technology competencies under focus include electro-optical and infrared sensing (EO/IR), space electronics, space environmental impacts, space operations technologies, and space experiments.
ARPA-E is soliciting proposals to develop and test power system optimization and control algorithms for grid optimization. The major challenges include the electric power sector’s security-constrained optimal power flow, Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) intermittent resources, storage, grid resilience, grid restoration, grid dynamics, and cyber threats.
The Department of Energy (DOE) is seeking proposals for improvement of Pumped Storage Hydropower (PSH) contribution in the future electricity system. The target areas include facility design for modular hydropower, new use cases and conceptual designs for pumped storage systems, modeling, and analysis of pumped storage in system optimization.
Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) is soliciting Department of Defense (DoD) funded technologies to enhance public safety and homeland security. The participants should identify the problem, propose technology solutions and assess its market feasibility. The winners would receive benefits namely manufacturing assistance, marketing, and business mentorship.
The USDA’s Biorefinery, Renewable Chemical, and Biobased Product Manufacturing Assistance Program is soliciting research ideas that seek to assist the development, construction and retrofitting of commercial bio-refineries using clean energy technologies.
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As part of DOE’s High Energy Physics (HEP) program, the Department of Energy is inviting proposals for research to promote further understanding of interactions between matter and energy. Interested parties can participate in experimental, theoretical, computational, technological or detector research.
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The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program is offering research opportunities in two areas: biological systems science and earth and environmental systems sciences. Applicants should demonstrate a predictive understanding of complex systems for energy and infrastructure security.
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As part of its Basic Energy Sciences (BES) program, the Department of Energy (DOE) is soliciting proposals for fundamental research into new energy technologies. Interested parties can choose one or more of the 22 focus areas including materials chemistry, synthesis and processing science and solar photochemistry geosciences.
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The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science (SC) has announced a funding opportunity as part of its Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program. The key target areas of R&D would include the following: applied mathematics, computer science, and computational partnerships.
The Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) is providing competitive grants for promoting natural resources and emerging production systems for biomass feedstocks. The target areas include the following: sustainable agroecosystems, bio-based product feedstock logistics, agricultural microbiomes in plant systems, data sharing and others.
The Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) offers mentorship and incubator opportunities for early-stage companies through its two-year Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI) program. The program offers participants financial and technical support along with dedicated lab and office space, to help entrepreneurs launch full-fledged businesses.
