Smart Futures Lab offers an invaluable opportunity for growth in the tech space through a free incubator and accelerator program. Open to new majority tech founders, professionals, and students, looking to develop and scale their smart city innovation solutions. The Incubator Program caters to tech startups in the early stages of development, whether they are ideating, designing, or testing their products. The Accelerator Program is for mature companies looking to scale, build government partnerships, refine their business model, and find funding investors.

Launch your electrifying journey into the future of innovation! Join the world’s largest multi-sector commercialization program for emerging deep technologies. Pitch your groundbreaking innovations and connect with top-tier corporate, investment, military and federal leaders for partnering, licensing and investment opportunities. Whether you’re a startup, university TTO, federal lab, or federal awardee, seize the moment. Submit your commercially viable innovation now and connect with the largest gathering of tech-scouts and funding offices worldwide.

The E-Team Program, part of the VentureWell Accelerator, supports student ventures as you embark down the path you’re likely to take as an innovator and entrepreneur. We help you advance your invention through a powerful mix of up to $25,000 in grant funding, entrepreneurship training, mentorship by dedicated staff, national recognition, and networking with peers and industry experts.

Greentown Labs and Evonik are looking for startups at Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 4-7 that create or enable biodegradable polymers and other sustainable specialty chemicals that reduce the impact of personal-care products on humans, ecosystems, and the climate. Through Go Make 2025, your startup will have access to:

• A structured platform to engage leadership from Evonik and explore potential partnership outcomes, including joint development, licensing, investment, and more
• Mentorship, networking opportunities, and partnership-focused programming from the Greentown community of climatetech startup experts
• Exclusive access to the Greentown and Evonik networks

The fifth edition of The Clean Fight will be focused on decarbonizing existing multifamily low-to-moderate income (LMI) and affordable housing. In collaboration with leaders in the affordable housing market at the Climate Friendly Homes Fund administered by The Community Preservation Corporation, we are seeking high impact, market-proven climate solutions that break down barriers to decarbonization and simplify the retrofit process for multifamily LMI and affordable housing within New York City and State. Our non-residential program will run from May-October 2025.

The objective of this NOFO is to enhance grid reliability and resilience in the face of growing uncertainties and in the age of digital information systems and networks. It is critical to quantify and clearly communicate risk and uncertainties to decision-makers and human operators. This NOFO would seek applications to conduct Research and Development and Demonstration (RD&D) activities that advance the state of the art for power system uncertainty and risk metrics to help human operators receive actionable information to better understand, predict, prevent, and mitigate cascading failures in power grids. This is a newly developing field for the power sector with few, if any, commercial tools. It is therefore assumed this topic area will require an academic or research institution to be heavily involved in the project to achieve program objectives. Therefore, DOE is restricting eligibility to universities, colleges, DOE FFRDCs and non-profit research institutions or think-tanks to serve as the prime applicant. Prime applicants are encouraged to apply in partnerships with electric sector partners and technology providers to ensure the research remains relevant to industry.

This NOFO serves as the next action in a series of actions taken by DOE to expand deployment of HVDC transmission technology in the U.S., by investing in standards development and innovative solutions to reduce cost and footprint of HV DCCB technology for widespread use in the U.S. Topic Area 1 aims to expand on the standards development being conducted through DOE FOA 2828‘s Topic Area 1 by developing technical specifications and operational requirements for HVDC power circuit breakers to the suite of available standards. Topic Area 2 aims to explore potential innovative concepts and designs that can reduce the cost to produce, install, and operate HV DCCB, as well as reduce the footprint of the equipment and improve performance, given that power plant and/or platform space is at a premium, especially for offshore wind applications. The goal is to build off the work conducted, and lessons learned under the DOE ARPA-E BREAKERS program focused on the development of novel technologies for medium voltage direct current power circuit breakers.

The DOE SC programs in Nuclear Physics (NP) and Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) hereby announce their interest in receiving applications to the Nuclear Data InterAgency Working Group Research Program for research projects intended to answer nuclear data questions of interest to the research communities supported by those programs. This topic focuses on acquiring and refining nuclear data essential for fusion applications, particularly neutron interaction cross-sections, decay pathways, and activation products. It emphasizes the need for comprehensive sensitivity studies to prioritize nuclear data gaps that significantly impact reactor design, economics, and safety. Additionally, improving nuclear analysis and radiation transport models to optimize material selection and reduce waste is
crucial. Research should aim to improve predictive models for material activation and provide detailed uncertainty quantification to support better design choices and waste management strategies in fusion energy systems.

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is being issued by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) on behalf of the Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO). This funding opportunity is coordinated with Innovation Fund Denmark to support U.S.-Danish consortia collaborating on shared research objectives. EERE funds will be used to support the U.S. entity work through this FOA. Innovation Fund Denmark funds will be used to support Danish entity work through Innovation Fund Denmark’s corresponding funding opportunity. This research funding opportunity
focuses on issues related to mooring technologies and methods. For the purpose of
this FOA, “mooring technologies” means any equipment to permanently secure a
floating full-scale 15 megawatt+ wind turbine structure in position within a deep
water (50m+) offshore wind energy array including mooring lines, anchors, and all
associated components. The goals of this FOA are to:

• Advance floating offshore wind energy mooring technologies and methods towards cost-effective commercialization and industry growth;
• Encourage bilateral collaboration to increase the impact of research in the United States and Denmark; and
• Support research at U.S. minority-serving colleges and universities^[1](MSI) and facilitate new relationships between MSIs, other researchers, and industry participants.

The Wind Turbine Technology Recycling NOFO is a $20M program intended to address various barriers to widespread adoption of recycling for two major materials found in wind energy systems, fiber reinforced composites and rare earth elements. The overall goals are as follows:

• Accelerate development of designs that are more easily recyclable and reusable
• Accelerate development of end-of-life processing technologies to cost effectively, sustainably, and efficiently recycle and recover materials from wind turbines, including manufacturing waste
• Address technological and supply chain challenges limiting recycling of fiber reinforced composites and rare earth element magnets in wind turbines

The FY25 CLIMR Lab Call allocates part of the DOE’s Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF), whose mission is to support technologies with commercial potential that originate at DOE national laboratories by attracting partners who will develop products and sell them into viable markets. This process fills a key need for many labs as they assess their own portfolios, identify the highest-quality prospective partners, and assist those industry partners in evaluating technologies for their business models. While only DOE national laboratories are eligible for funding from this lab call, every funded project must include at least one private sector partner. Incubators, accelerators, manufacturers, and trade associations are among the range of partner types encouraged to partner with national labs through the CLIMR lab call, as they are well positioned to help energy-related national lab-developed technology advance toward commercialization.

Applications for the 2025 IdeaFunding pitch competition are now live. Entrepreneurs will need to submit applications before January 15, 2025. IdeaFunding is Southern Arizona’s largest and longest entrepreneurial conference and pitch competition, where this year over $50,000 in prizes will be awarded to Arizona-based companies on March 27, 2025, as part of the 2025 TENWEST Festival. IdeaFunding is co-led by Startup Tucson and the University of Arizona Center for Innovation (UACI) and presented by the Arizona Commerce Authority. This year’s pitch competition will support startups with a wide variety of available prizes valued from $1,000 to $25,000 which include a mix of cash and services. Main-stage first and second-place prize winners will receive a sponsored year in the UACI incubator program, a prize valued at $10,000. There will also be four vertical stages, each awarding prizes, along with specialty prizes like the Adelante Arizona prize for diverse founders sponsored by Community Investment Corporation.