The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) is seeking applications for the Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) Base Core Laboratory Infrastructure for Market Readiness (CLIMR) Lab Call. Based on FY24, an estimated $30.1 to $36.8 million is expected to be available to fund projects solicited in this lab call pending FY25 appropriations and program direction. The total funding amount available will be applied once an official FY25 DOE budget is passed.
“The 2025 TCF Base CLIMR Lab Call is a significant step in accelerating the commercialization of vital clean energy technologies being developed at DOE and is illustrative of OTT’s ongoing support of our labs, plants, and sites,” said DOE Chief Commercialization Officer and Director of OTT, Dr. Vanessa Chan. “With this investment, we aim to enhance the lab-to-market pipeline to catalyze the introduction of groundbreaking energy solutions.”
This lab call represents collaboration among 14 DOE program offices and OTT, demonstrating DOE’s dedication to deploy lasting energy solutions from our renown National Lab, plant, and sites. Funded by the Base Annual Appropriations Technology Commercialization Fund, this initiative is designed to boost America’s energy competitiveness by facilitating the transition of critical technologies for use in the private sector.
The following six topics are now accepting proposals:
- Topic 1: Market Needs Assessment – Identify and analyze emerging market needs, competitive cost analysis, and public and private market trends to develop a strategy that will maximize success of technology commercialization from National Labs.
- Topic 2: Curation of Intellectual Property (IP), Data, and Software – Develop and implement streamlined and innovative strategies for labs to connect their IP, data, and software to promising partners in the private sector.
- Topic 3: Matchmaking – Develop or expand business incubation programming to create new partnerships that will move National Lab-developed technologies to market.
- Topic 4: Technology Specific Partnership Projects – Advance the commercialization of individual energy-related National Lab-developed technologies by demonstrating clear evidence of commercial potential that combines technology progress with market pull or interest.
- 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.
- Topic 6: Increasing Partnerships with External Commercialization Parties, Private Funders, Non-profits, and Agency- or Lab-Related 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.
Key Dates
An informational webinar will be held for all potential applicants on October 30, 3–4 p.m. ET. Register here.
The deadline to submit concept papers is December 12, 3 p.m. ET.
The deadline to submit full applications is March 11, 3 p.m. ET.
DOE expects to make selection notifications in the third quarter of FY25.
All application materials must be submitted through Exchange.
Teaming Partner List
To facilitate multi-lab or external partnerships, this lab call offers an opportunity for private industry to partner with DOE’s National Labs. Private entities are invited to collaborate to advance energy-related National Lab-developed technology toward commercialization and to reduce the barriers to commercializing lab-developed energy-related technologies and intellectual property. To support this collaboration, DOE will compile a Teaming Partner List to facilitate the formation of new project teams.
Any organization that would like to be included on this list should find the Teaming Partner List for this solicitation (TPL-0000059) on Exchange and submit their organization name and basic details, contact information, area of expertise, and applicable CLIMR topics and subtopics.
About the Department of Energy Office of Technology Transitions
The Department of Energy Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) is one of the largest supporters of technology commercialization in the federal government. Founded in 2015, OTT bolsters the technology industry’s market skills and enables clean energy technologies to progress through research, development, demonstration, and to deployment into the private sector to meet our nation’s climate goals. Visit us at energy.gov/ott to learn more and subscribe to receive our latest opportunities and accomplishments via email. Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
