EnergyTech University Prize 2025 – YOA

Deadline: January 13, 2025 (Faculty) / February 3, 2025 (Student)

Applications are open for the EnergyTech University Prize 2025. Sponsored by the Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) on the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the American-Made EnergyTech University Prize (EnergyTech UP) challenges scholar groups to compete for money prizes for efficiently figuring out a promising power know-how, assessing its market potential, and making a marketing strategy for commercialization. Faculty are challenged to create revolutionary implementation plans that broaden power know-how commercialization. 

Prize Structure

For Student Competitors

Student groups inquisitive about EnergyTech UP will compete for greater than $400,000 in money prizes as they discover enterprise alternatives for lab-developed or different excessive-potential power applied sciences, assess commercialization alternatives by market evaluation, and current a viable marketing strategy to business judges. 

Understanding that power is commonly inherently native, competitor groups first current at their designated regional occasions in March, the place regional finalists are recognized. Teams which can be invited to take part within the regional occasions obtain free entry to OTT’s Energy I-Corps curriculum. Finalists are supplied unique mentorship to assist college students refine their concepts all through March and April. Finally, the finalists pitch their full marketing strategy as part of a nationwide convention in April 2025 (tentative).

For Faculty Competitors

The college observe of EnergyTech UP is designed for educators who might profit from mentorship and sources to create an implementation plan for his or her blossoming concepts for integrating or increasing power know-how commercialization or entrepreneurship actions at their home establishment.

Faculty (or college groups) will compete for greater than $100,000 in money prizes by three phases of competitors. They will develop a proposal to broaden power know-how commercialization or entrepreneurship actions at their home establishment; obtain entry to a DOE mentor and DOE sources; and work towards displaying how their plans might be built-in into scholar actions. 

Eligibility

• You can apply if you’re a collegiate scholar or college member inquisitive about transitioning power applied sciences to market.
• Entries have to be in English.

Application

Here are subsequent steps you may take to get began: 

• Indicate your curiosity in competing by filling out this interest form
• Sign as much as compete in EnergyTech UP on HeroX, the official competitors platform.
• Read the EnergyTech UP Official Rules doc
• Join the 2025 informational webinars:
• Learn about DOE National Lab-developed power applied sciences to make use of for this competitors on the OTT Lab Partnering Service.

For extra info, go to EnergyTech University Prize.