U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is releasing $18.4 million by means of the Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) for seven nationwide laboratory initiatives with the aim of getting extra clear energy applied sciences to {the marketplace}. The chosen nationwide laboratories will handle obstacles, gaps and root causes of commercialization challenges for rising clear energy applied sciences.
“Accelerating how quickly we get novel technologies to the marketplace will allow us to deploy the clean energy sources needed to combat climate change, lower energy costs and keep us on course to reaching President Biden’s decarbonization goals,” says U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm. “DOE’s national laboratories are stepping up to address the urgent need to develop solutions for expedited clean energy technology commercialization – from the time a product is researched, developed and patented to its widespread use.”
New clear energy applied sciences are vital to assembly the nation’s local weather objectives, however they face distinctive obstacles to commercialization. Selected lab initiatives will use a holistic method to figuring out and addressing frequent obstacles that clear energy know-how firms face when working to efficiently commercialize a product.
TCF, established by Congress by means of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and reauthorized by the Energy Act of 2020, offers new flexibilities to advertise promising energy applied sciences. On February 15, 2022, 9 DOE program places of work subsequently issued the Core Laboratory Infrastructure for Commercialization, a name for nationwide laboratories to develop infrastructure for clear energy know-how commercialization.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will develop promising lab applied sciences and domesticate a pool of numerous abilities and connections between business and nationwide labs in collaboration with 4 different labs and funds cost-shared by companions in California, Massachusetts and New York.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory will rise up a prize to supply versatile funding and focused commercialization help to groups at totally different ranges of technical and industrial readiness ranges in collaboration with 5 different labs and funds cost-shared by companions in California.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will develop a Visual Intellectual Property Search (VIPS) for each patents and software program, made accessible on the DOE’s Lab Partnering Service webpage, in collaboration with eight different labs and funds cost-shared by companions in California. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will standardize know-how switch workflows to speed up the transition of lab-developed applied sciences to the market in collaboration with 5 different labs and funds cost-shared by companions in Arizona and California.
Sandia National Laboratories will create a robust regional clear energy commercialization ecosystem in New Mexico for manufacturing in collaboration with six different labs and funds cost-shared by companions in Arizona, California, Minnesota and New Mexico.
Sandia National Laboratories may also interact the varied startup group at a brand new, bigger scale in an effort to improve the variety of startups round DOE lab applied sciences in collaboration with 13 different labs and funds cost-shared by companions in Alaska, California, District of Columbia, New Mexico and Virginia.
Sandia National Laboratories may also set up a collaborative method for transferring the semiconductor sector and subsequent technology microelectronics from the lab to the market in collaboration with 4 different labs and funds cost-shared by companions in Arizona, California, Iowa, Kansas, New Mexico, New York and North Carolina.
“I authored the legislation that established this revamped version of the Technology Commercialization Fund at the Department of Energy,” feedback U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (NM). “I am thrilled that these awards will empower our national labs – including Sandia in New Mexico – to build strong partnerships with local private sector startup companies and grow commercialization and manufacturing ecosystems around promising clean energy technologies developed by Department of Energy researchers.”
“New Mexico’s National Laboratories play a central role in strengthening our nation’s scientific leadership and our economy,” states U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (NM). “In Congress, I’m proud to have championed and led bipartisan initiatives in the House and Senate competition packages to support the lab’s research and development efforts in the industries of the future; to modernize our lab’s infrastructure; and to accelerate the commercialization of innovative technologies. This announcement of over $18 million in investments in our labs from the DOE’s Technology Commercialization Fund represents a key investment in the United States’ STEM workforce, its long-term economic competitiveness, and a better quality of life for New Mexicans and all Americans.”
DOE’s Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) coordinates the TCF and performs a task in strengthening DOE’s commercialization partnerships. OTT coordinated with the next DOE program places of work to make funding accessible for 2022: the Office of Nuclear Energy; the Office of Electricity; and the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Building Technologies Office, Geothermal Technologies Office, Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office, Solar Energy Technologies Office, Water Power Technologies Office, and Wind Energy Technologies Office.
