Voucher Opportunity 4 (Recipients) - Commercialization Support (EERE)
Information
Description
Are you a company (for-profit entity) in the research and development stage seeking support to commercialize your technology? This opportunity is designed to provide additional support in the form of a voucher for help with market assessment, business plan formulation, fundraising road-mapping (from both public and private sources), and commercialization strategy. See below for additional info about eligibility and timeline.
As part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Technology Commercialization Fund, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) and Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), in collaboration with ENERGYWERX, are offering this Commercialization Support Voucher Opportunity (VO-4) to eligible companies to increase adoption readiness (with a focus on value proposition and market acceptance) of clean energy technologies.
View the Pre-Approved Voucher Providers: Click Here to View
Complete the Recipient Submission Form: Click Here to Submit for VO-4
Objective
The DOE Voucher Program builds bridges between U.S. entrepreneurs, businesses, technology developers or other relevant partners and third-party voucher providers to advance commercialization of innovative energy technologies. VO-4 addresses key adoption risk areas faced by companies in the research and development stage that are working to commercialize their technology.
DOE has selected and pre-approved a cohort of voucher providers offering a variety of capabilities you might be interested in: Click Here to View the Pre-Approved Voucher Providers. For this voucher opportunity, capabilities include:
- Market analysis/research
- Marketing Materials development
- Go to Market strategy
- Product Scale up
- Patent landscape analysis
- Intellectual Property legal support
- Business Plan development,
- Fundraising road-mapping (from both public and private sources)
- Commercialization strategy assistance
When you apply, you will review the available capabilities and submit your preferences in the voucher recipient request form. If you find something that can be valuable to your company and that can enable your company to accelerate demonstration, commercialization, and deployment of your product, please consider applying to receive that in-kind support.
Note: The full list of pre-approved voucher provider capabilities is available here. Please carefully read through the descriptions, deliverables, required inputs, applicable technology area(s), and other related information for each capability. DOE will not allow changes to the high-level scope of work defined in the voucher provider’s capability submission.
Voucher Projects: Vouchers will be distributed as in-kind support, meaning that ENERGYWERX will directly reimburse the voucher provider for the work they have completed on behalf of the voucher recipients. DOE anticipates the value of the voucher to be up to $50,000. However, the specific value depends on the specific capability and is discussed only between DOE and the provider.
Only work related to specific technology areas will be eligible to receive a voucher under this opportunity. List of eligible technology areas:
- Clean hydrogen
- Industrial decarbonization
- Advanced materials and Manufacturing Technologies
- Building efficiency
- Geothermal
- Solar
- Water
- Wind
- Bioenergy
- Vehicle technologies
DOE anticipates issuing approximately 10 vouchers at this time.
Voucher Recipients: Limited to for-profit companies with a product prototype that fits a specific technology area of interest for DOE EERE and is nearly ready for pilot scale or large-scale demonstration, or commercialization. DOE is particularly interested in supporting companies who have won DOE prize competitions or completed DOE funded R&D projects (from any DOE office including but not limited to Office of Science, EERE, FECM, Nuclear Energy, ARPA-E) and need a boost to get to the next level. Preference will be given to potential voucher recipients who have not previously received support through this program.
This opportunity is limited to one submission per requesting organization. In the case of multiple submissions, DOE will consider only the submission with the latest time stamp.
Pending availability of funds, additional submission windows may open in the future for this voucher opportunity.
Event Updates
Voucher Recipients: How to Participate in VO-4
- Watch the Informational Webinar/Objective Strategic Session recording: Click Here to Watch
- Submit questions into Slido to be answered during the live Office Hours session:
- Review the resources from the Informational Office Session on August 21, 2024 from 3:00-4:00 PM ET under Webinar Resources
- Complete the Recipient Submission Form: Click Here to Submit for VO-4 (Submissions are due NLT September 12, 2024 at 3:00 PM ET)
This is not the only voucher opportunity currently available through ENERGYWERX. See here for additional information related to other voucher opportunities.
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