Department of Energy Announced Notice of Intent Fiscal Year 2025 Core Laboratory Infrastructure for Market Readiness (CLIMR) Lab Call
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) announced their Notice of Intent (NOI) to issue a call for proposals from DOE National Laboratories, plants, and sites for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Core Laboratory Infrastructure for Market Readiness (CLIMR) Lab Call. The goal of OTT's Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) is to improve America’s energy competitiveness and security by accelerating commercialization of critical clean energy technologies to market. DOE anticipates releasing the FY25 CLIMR Lab Call in October 2024. OTT will post the solicitation to EERE Exchange and distribute the CLIMR Lab Call announcement to the Technology Transfer Offices at each of the eligible DOE National Laboratories, plants, and sites.
OTT expects to award up to $36.8 million across six topics, subject to appropriations. This lab call will be funded by the TCF Base Annual Appropriations and represents the combined effort of fourteen distinct DOE program/technology offices and OTT.
In FY25, DOE expects to select projects from DOE National Laboratories, plants, and sites in the following six topics.
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Topic 1: Market Needs Assessment – Identify and analyze emerging market needs and integrate findings into strategy to maximize success of technology commercialization from National Labs.
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Topic 2: Curation of Intellectual Property (IP), Data, and Software – Innovate how labs connect their IP, data, and software to promising partners in the private sector.
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Topic 3: Matchmaking – Create or expand business incubation programming that will result in the creation of teams to commercialize National Lab-developed technologies.
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Topic 4: Technology Specific Partnership Projects – Advance the commercialization of individual energy-related National Lab-developed technologies that are at a stage that will generate private sector interest.
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Topic 5: Enhancing Laboratory Processes – Address barriers to effective and efficient implementation of National Lab processes to facilitate moving lab-developed, promising energy-related technologies toward commercialization.
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Topic 6: Increasing Partnerships with External Commercialization Parties, Private Funders, Non-profits, and Agency-Affiliated Foundations – Improve how labs attract, recruit, and retain external partners to further develop and commercialize technologies by decreasing barriers to working with the labs, increasing the number and diversity of private sector partners, and accelerating and deepening connectivity with diverse commercialization stakeholders.
Please see the Notice of Intent on EERE Exchange for more details on the lab call, and questions from eligible entities can be directed to tcf@hq.doe.gov. Interested parties that wish to explore potential external partnerships can also consider joining the Teaming Partners List (see the Notice of Intent appendix for additional information).
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