PLEASE NOTE:
11 October 2016:
NEW AMENDED NOTICE AND RECOMMENDED FORMS ARE NOW POSTED. APPLICANTS ARE ADVISED TO REVIEW AMENDED NOTICE AND NEW FORMS BEFORE SUBMITTING APPLICATIONS.
DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is putting the world-class resources of the national labs at your fingertips with the Small Business Vouchers (SBV) Pilot. During fiscal year 2016, EERE applied almost $14MM to new projects with 76 small businesses.
Now, EERE is announcing its first call for Small Business Vouchers in fiscal year 2017. EERE has pledged $12MM in new funding for this round, and one additional round during the fiscal year.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) enterprise of National Laboratories is an innovation powerhouse full of unique and advanced instruments as well as world class scientists, engineers and other professionals. The Small Business Vouchers (SBV) Pilot is a mechanism structured to allow small businesses engaged in the renewable energy and the energy efficiency sectors greater access to the vast capabilities and resources that exist at the DOE National Laboratories.
Through the SBV Pilot, eligible small businesses can tap into the reserve of National Laboratory intellectual and technical assets to overcome critical technology and commercialization challenges such as:
· Prototyping
· Materials characterization
· High performance computations
· Modeling and simulations
· Intermediate scaling to generate samples for potential customers
· Validation of technology performance
· Designing new ways to satisfy regulatory compliance