Lab Call: Core Laboratory Infrastructure for Market Readiness (CLIMR)

Office: Office of Technology Transitions
Lab call number: DE-LC-000L124
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Funding Amount: Up to $36,800,000

Background Information

On October 17, 2024, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $36.8 million in funding for the Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) Base Core Laboratory Infrastructure for Market Readiness (CLIMR) Lab Call. The goal of Technology Commercialization Fund is to improve America’s energy competitiveness and security by accelerating commercialization of critical clean energy technologies to market.

This lab call is funded by the Base Annual Appropriations Technology Commercialization Fund. This will be the primary lab call for TCF Base for FY25.

Eligibility

Eligible applicants include DOE’s National Laboratories, plants, and sites.

Topic Areas

This lab call has six top areas:

• 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. 
  • Outline of Eligible FECM Technology Areas and Areas of Interest:
    • Hydrogen with Carbon Management
      • Technologies for High Purity Oxygen Separation from Air
      • Accelerating Hydrogen and Natural Gas/Hydrogen Blend Gas Turbine Combustion Simulations with Stiff and Detailed Kinetics Using Machine Learning Tools
      • Lower Cost Alloys for High Performance Energy Materials in Challenging Applications
    • Carbon Transport and Storage
      • Tools for Advancing the Deployment of CO2 Transport and Storage
      • CO2 Transportation System Leak Detection and Monitoring
    • Carbon Dioxide Removal
      • Direct air capture supply chain mapping
      • Mechanism to assess commercialization and market viability of CDR suppliers
    • Carbon Conversion
      • Emerging Thermochemical CO2 Conversion technologies
    • Point Source Carbon Capture
      • Enabling technological and engineering solutions to achieve high purity CO2 product streams for carbon transport and storage (CT&S)
      • Advancing the co-design membranes, accelerated testing, and advanced manufacturing techniques for adoption of membrane-based CCS technologies
      • Integrated CCS system digital twins
      • Innovative cryogenic methods for CO2 purification from power or industrial point source facilities
    • Advanced Remediation Technologies
      • AI/ML Applications for Induced Seismicity Management in Oil and Gas Producing Basins of West Texas
    • Minerals Sustainability
      • Capabilities Enhancements for Clean Hydrogen Production from Produced Water
      • Subsurface Monitoring Capabilities Enhancements for Underground Hydrogen Storage (UHS) Evaluation
      • Technologies for Converting Stranded and Underutilized Natural Gas to Sustainable Industrial Chemicals and Carbon Products
• 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.   

Funding

DOE expects to award up to $36.8 million across six topics, subject to appropriations. 

Webinar 

An informational webinar will be hosted on October 30, 2024, at 3:00 PM ET to discuss this funding opportunity as well as the application requirements.

Register here

Attending the informational webinar is not mandatory and will not positively or negatively impact the overall review of any applicant submissions. 

Key Dates

Past Selectees 

A detailed list of the selected projects from FY24 lab call can be found here.

Additional Information

• Download the full lab call on EERE Exchange.

Last Updated: October 24, 2024