The Community Power Accelerator connects developers, investors, philanthropists, and community-based organizations to create an ecosystem of partners that work together to get more equity-focused community solar projects financed and deployed. Part of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Community Solar Partnership (NCSP), the accelerator will create a pipeline of credit-ready community solar projects—particularly those that provide benefits to underserved communities—and connect them with mission-aligned investors and philanthropic organizations to get these projects funded.

In an effort to scale needed housing solutions, Enterprise and the Wells Fargo Foundation have teamed up to launch a new $20 million competition. The Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge will identify and propel implementation-ready innovations that transform current practices and reimagine access to affordable homes. Eligible applicants will compete for individual grants of $1 million, $2 million and $3 million to scale ideas that lay the groundwork for system-wide change. Winners also will receive two years of technical assistance to turn their ideas into real-world programs.

The Conductivity-enhanced materials for Affordable, Breakthrough Leapfrog Electric and thermal applications (CABLE) Conductor Manufacturing Prize aims to help supercharge our U.S. energy and manufacturing industries. Competitors must demonstrate significant enhancements in conductivity and affordability that enable U.S. manufacturers to leapfrog to next-generation materials. Competitors will provide a sample of their material for electrical conductivity testing and preliminary plans to scale-up and manufacture the material according to prize requirements. Any eligible entity can compete in Stage 2 regardless of whether they were a competitor in Stage 1.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) today announced an opportunity for hydropower developers and other stakeholders to receive technical assistance from the DOE national laboratories to advance hydropower’s role on the electricity grid. This technical assistance opportunity is open to hydropower developers, system operators, utilities, energy co-ops, manufacturers, regulators, policymakers, nonprofits, and others. Both for-profit and nonprofit companies or entities that are incorporated (or otherwise formed) under the laws of a particular state or territory of the United States are eligible to apply.

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 Clean Energy Cybersecurity Accelerator (CECA) advances cyber innovation to defend modern, renewable energy technologies against high-priority cybersecurity risks to the energy sector. Designed to bolster emerging technologies, CECA aims to identify the most urgent security gaps in the modern electrical grid and expedites disruptive solutions to market. Cohorts go through an accelerator period of 3 to 12 months, sharing ideas and threat intelligence before validating solutions in the lab.

Go Energize 2023 is seeking applications from startups with a technology readiness level (TRL) of 3 and higher. Applicants should also be actively commercializing or looking to commercialize within the offshore wind industry. Technologies that have been demonstrated or commercialized for a different market are still eligible, as long as there is a relevant target application. The program scope includes both environmental and digital solutions that can be applied to the offshore wind industry.

The Testing Expertise and Access for Marine Energy Research (TEAMER™) program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and directed by the Pacific Ocean Energy Trust (POET), will accelerate that process through 2-3 annual open funding calls over each of the next three years to support developers seeking access to the nation’s best facilities and expertise. Over this time, TEAMER plans to distribute approximately $9 million through the periodic competitive opportunities (known as Requests for Technical Support, RFTSs) to support marine renewable energy (MRE) testing and development projects.

• RFTS 9 – Applications due by March 3, 2023
• RFTS 10 – Applications due by July 7, 2023
• RFTS 11 Applications due by November 3, 2023

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.

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.

AltaSea has launched BLUESEA, a 360° support ecosystem for blue economy businesses; a place where innovators can start, grow and scale. Located on a 35 acre historic pier at the Port of Los Angeles, BLUECSEA is a collaboration incubator where ocean innovators work together to create solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.  We offer state-of-the-art makerspace infrastructure for R&D, prototype, pilot, demo and commercialization.  The cutting edge 400,000 square foot campus provides unparalleled access to the deep ocean, more than 4,000 feet of linear dock space, circulating seawater and marine life support systems, laboratories, research facilities and hands-on educational and job skills development areas.

Fall 2022 solicitation will focus on topic areas associated with the HPC4Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) and HPC4Materials (HPC4Mtls) Programs. The program seeks industry partners interested in leveraging HPC resources to make advancements in the following areas:

HPC4Mfg

• Improvements in manufacturing processes which result in significant national carbon emissions reduction and energy savings.
• Improvements in semiconductor technologies that will result in operational energy efficiency improvements.
• Carbon emissions reduction and efficiency improvements in energy conversion and storage technologies.
• Reductions in CO₂ or CO₂-equivalent emissions.

HPC4Mtls

• Advanced Materials for Carbon Conversion Applications
• Advanced Structural Materials for Hydrogen Applications
• Advanced Functional Materials for Hydrogen Applications