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Solar Business Support | Department of Energy What is Solar Business Support? To spur American innovation and increase domestic solar manufacturing, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) supports entrepreneurs and small businesses in their efforts to develop and advance solar technologies.
Early-stage assistance helps startup companies cross technological barriers to commercialization and ultimately helps promising solar products to reach the market. Learn more about how solar technologies work . Why is Solar Business Support Important?
Bringing new technologies from conceptualization to the prototype stage, and then into the market is challenging, especially in the solar sector. Entrepreneurs developing new technologies or new solar manufacturing processes face high risks and have difficulties raising the funding needed to fully mature their ideas.
Assisting these companies with their groundbreaking technologies enable the private sector to develop and sustain new solar products that can be manufactured in the United States. SETO Research in Solar Business Support Support is available through several different funding programs, through which awardees work with SETO to achieve project milestones.
There are also entrepreneurship and partnership opportunities that provide technical assistance, industry expertise, and sometimes peer research and information sharing. The following is a list of mechanisms that support the goal of strengthening U. S solar manufacturing and competitiveness.
The American-Made Solar Prize is a competition designed to support entrepreneurs as they develop transformative technology ideas into concepts and then into early-stage prototypes ready for industry testing. Competitors can receive cash prizes, as well as vouchers redeemable at the national laboratories and other partner facilities. Learn more about SETO’s prizes and challenges .
The Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) programs provide awards to support research and development efforts at small businesses that have a specific scope of work and concrete objectives. There are two funding levels: feasibility study and proof-of-concept development (Phase I) and prototype development (Phase II). A Phase I award is required to receive a Phase II award.
The Technology Commercialization Fund promotes federal research and development investments in technologies with commercial potential, where DOE national laboratories are the lead applicants. Each lab project requires a commercial, private-sector partner to commit a 50% project cost share and be involved in project formation and execution. The goal is to transfer the lab-developed technology to the commercial project partner.
DOE's Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) Solar Manufacturing and Competitiveness Research SETO's Solar Energy Research Areas Solar Research and Development Funding Programs
According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Entrepreneurs and small businesses developing solar technologies. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
Solar Business Support is funded by U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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