Voucher Opportunity 4 – Commercialization Support (EERE)
Information
Description
Are you a company (for-profit entity) who received support from DOE through a research, development, and/or demonstration financial assistance agreement or prize program in the last 5 years? 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, is offering its 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.
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. Voucher Opportunity (VO-4) includes market research, business plans, fundraising road-mapping (from both public and private sources), and other commercialization strategy assistance for companies who have received funding from DOE’s RD&D programs.
The first submission window solicits proposals from potential voucher providers. A second submission window will be open soon to solicit requests from potential voucher recipients. Pending availability of funds, additional submission windows may open in the future.
Voucher Projects: Expected max voucher worth $50,000 of work. 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. Only work related to specific technology areas will be eligible to receive a voucher under this opportunity. List of eligible technology areas:
- With EERE funding:
- Clean Hydrogen
- Industrial Decarbonization
- Advanced materials and Manufacturing Technologies
- Building efficiency
- Geothermal
- Solar
- Water
- Wind
- Bioenergy
- Vehicle technologies
DOE anticipates issuing approximately 20 vouchers for the technology areas funded by EERE.
Voucher Providers: Including but not limited to independent engineering and consulting firms.
Voucher Recipients: Limited to for-profit companies who have won a prize or received other financial assistance from DOE at any point after January 1st, 2019 to develop a proof of concept or product prototype that fits a specific technology area of interest for DOE EERE. While the for-profit entity can have received previous R&D support from any DOE office (including but not limited to Office of Science, EERE, FECM, Nuclear Energy, ARPA-E, the SBIR/STTR office) only companies working on one of the eligible technology areas will be considered.
Event Updates
Voucher Providers: How to Participate in VO-4
- Review Resources from the September 12, 2023 IW/OSS
- Review the Resources From the September 19, 2023 Office Hours
- Download the Provider Capability Overview: Click Here to Download
- Complete Submission Form & Upload Completed Capability Overview: Click Here to Submit for VO-4 (NLT September 26, 2023 at 5:00 PM ET)
This is not the only voucher opportunity currently available through ENERGYWERX. See below for additional information related to other voucher opportunities:
- VO-1: Pre-Demonstration Commercialization Support (OCED/EERE)
- VO-2: Performance Validation, Modeling, and Certification Support (OCED/EERE)
- VO-3: Clean Energy Demonstration Project Siting/Permitting Support (OCED/EERE)
- VO-5: Commercialization Support (Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, FECM)
Notice for all parties interested in ENERGYWERX events and programs: Announcement of ENERGYWERX events that are considered to have a high potential for further efforts that may be accomplished via FAR-based contracting instruments, Other Transaction Authority (OTA) for prototype projects 10 USC 4022, prizes for advanced technology achievements 10 USC 4025, and/or prize competitions 15 USC 3719, may be made at the www.energywerx.org website. All announcements made at the www.energywerx.org website are considered to satisfy the reasonable effort to obtain competition in accordance with 10 USC 4025, 15 USC 3719 (e) and 10 USC 4022. All FAR-based actions will follow announcement procedures per FAR 5.201(b) accordingly.