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Updates from the Energy Scene - December 16, 2022

HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM CLEANTECH SAN DIEGO
Cleantech San Diego and the Southern California Energy Innovation Network (SCEIN) are grateful to our entrepreneurs, members, and stakeholders for your continued support this year and for the dedication you've shown to upholding the promise of a thriving cleantech economy for all.

In lieu of hosting a holiday party for our members, Cleantech San Diego has made a donation to Mama's Kitchen, a nonprofit providing home-delivered meals and nutrition services to critically-ill residents of San DiegoCounty. In the spirit of nourishing our community, we invite you to join us by also making a donation this holiday season. We wish you a safe, healthy, and happy holiday season.

RECOMMENDED READING
INFLATION REDUCTION ACT RESOURCES
Given the cleantech sector’s interest in implications of the recently signed Inflation Reduction Act, Cleantech San Diego has posted to its website a number of relevant resources available to the cleantech community. If you or your company have resources to share, please let us know.
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WEBINARS AND EVENTS

Community Solar Power Summit

Community Solar Power Summit is designed to serve and advance the community solar power market. This unique, two-day event focuses in on issues and trends directly impacting community solar across the country.

  • Meet with national companies
  • Understand the latest trends and policy issues
  • Make connections and grow your network

January 18-19
San Diego, CA

Use discount code “PC23CLEANSD" for 15% off registration.

Register

2023 Cleantech Forum North America

At Cleantech Forum North America, you’ll meet the investors, innovators, and corporate change makers who are building and championing the technologies that will deliver net-zero transformation. The theme, "From commitments to actions: Accelerating our net-zero strategy," will inspire a research-led agenda where experts discuss the big ideas with the power to deliver a cleaner, cooler world.

January 23-25
Palm Springs, CA

Use discount code "CFNACLEANTECHSD" for $300 off registration.

Register

2023 Intersolar North America and Energy Storage North America

As the first major solar + storage event of the year in North America, Intersolar North America highlights the latest energy technologies, services, companies, and organizations striving to create positive impact on climate change and support our planet’s transition into a more sustainable energy future.

Attendees get in-depth technical training, hands-on product workshops, trends, and education from top experts. Experience the solar industry’s best practices for the design, installation, and maintenance of code-compliant PV and storage systems. Tour the expo floor to review the best-in-class companies and the top solutions, services, and products for the year ahead.

February 14-16
Long Beach, CA

U.S. Development & Finance Forum

NPM Events’ 3rd Annual U.S. Development & Finance Forum will bring together the renewable energy development and finance communities with their partners for targeted networking opportunities and in-depth panel discussions with industry leaders. The main themes for the 1.5-day event will be energy transition technologies driving the market forward, as well as project and platform development challenges, trends, strategies, and, solutions.

Key topics include:

  • Technologies being explored by IPPs
  • Energy storage
  • Green hydrogen
  • Solving the interconnection logjam
  • PPA trends and renegotiations
  • Project finance
  • Fund ownership vs. founder funded model
  • Capital raising and deployment strategies

March 20-21
Houston, TX

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2023 NREL Industry Growth Forum 

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will be hosting the 28th Industry Growth Forum (IGF), the nation’s premiere cleantech commercialization-acceleration event that aligns promising startups with venture capitalists looking for their next great investment. The IGF provides many opportunities to accelerate your company's growth with over 500 of the world's leading cleantech investors, entrepreneurs, and industry professionals in attendance. 

May 2-3
Denver, CO

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GRANT, PRESENTATION, AND AWARD OPPORTUNITIES

Energy Storage Innovations Prize

The American Made Energy Storage Innovations Prize aims to gain insight on innovative, emerging, and next-generation energy storage technologies to inform the Department of Energy's strategy on transformative storage technologies to accelerate grid modernization and decarbonization. Competitors will propose their grid-scale, long duration-capable energy storage technology innovation. This opportunity offers a total prize pool of $300,000 in cash prizes. 

Application Deadline: December 16

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EnergyTech University Prize 2022 - 2023

The second round of the American-Made EnergyTech University Prize (EnergyTech UP) from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Technology Transitions is underway. EnergyTech UP is a collegiate competition challenging multidisciplinary student teams to develop and present a business plan that leverages National Laboratory-developed or other high-potential energy technologies.

Application Deadline: January 26

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Rocket Fund

Caltech's Rocket Fund is a member-supported granting pool that helps academic and garage innovators turn their technologies into commercial realities through financial support, entrepreneurial mentoring, and education. Rocket Fund provides up to $100,000 in non-equity grants, opportunities to work with utilities and access further funding, introductions to experts in product development, scale-up and manufacturing, and more.

Application Deadline: March 3

CalSEED Concept Awards

Applications will open on February 17 for CalSEED's next round of funding for early-stage clean energy entrepreneurs. Funded by California Energy Commission's EPIC program, CalSEED's primary purpose is to address a critical funding gap in the early stages of the energy technology development pipeline in California. Don’t miss your chance to get $150K on this first round with the possibility of an additional $450k. 

Application Deadline: March 5

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RELATED STARTUP PROGRAMS

Advancing Climatetech and Clean Energy Leaders

Greentown Labs and Browning the Green Space are excited to introduce Advancing Climatetech and Clean Energy Leaders (ACCEL). 

ACCEL combines startup acceleration with a curated curriculum, incubation at Greentown, and extensive mentorship from our networks of industry experts. The recurring, year-long program will focus on product and technology development, market development, fundraising, and management and team development. 

ACCEL is seeking applications from startups with founding and executive teams that are primarily made up of leaders who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color and are developing climate solutions for the electricity, transportation, buildings, manufacturing, and agriculture sectors.

Application Deadline: December 23
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Incubatenergy Labs

Incubatenergy Labs is built for startups to engage EPRI and electric power utilities in paid demonstration projects. A utilities summit and collaborative demonstrations program in one, the program links startup companies leading the advancement of electrification, decarbonization and grid modernization with utilities from around the world that have the capacity and desire to demonstrate and scale those innovations. The program is structured to give you maximum exposure to utilities and ensure that the results of a successful demonstration with one utility turns into opportunities with many. New for 2023, startups now have the possibility of demonstrations in the US, Canada, Europe, South America, or Latin America.

Application Deadline: January 7
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CCIA's Energy Fellows Institute

Colorado Cleantech Industries Association's (CCIA) signature Energy Fellows Institute program is a journey through the Colorado, national, and global clean technology and climate tech ecosystems. Through ten sessions over the span of nine months, the Institute provides a unique opportunity for the exchange of ideas, opportunities, skills, and community in order to develop leaders ready to succeed in the world-changing advanced energy business. Sessions entail high-level conversations with cleantech startups and CEOs, investors, and thought leaders, as well as exclusive visits to sites such as the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Vestas Blades Manufacturing Facility, and Xcel Energy's Cherokee Generating Station.

Application Deadline: January 9

Apply

San Diego Angel Conference

The San Diego Angel Conference (SDAC) is a 7-month cycle that connects angel investors and entrepreneurs and focuses on a ‘getting to yes’ mindset, a culture, and a philosophy that improves deal flow, strengthens the ecosystem, and activates more angel investment. 

The E-Track consists of free, virtually-available events dedicated to helping entrepreneurs solidify their foundations and become more investment-worthy. This effort wraps up with the SDAC application deadline in January. 

Investors then evaluate and analyze applications for the next three months (starting in January). They work together to identify a winner and runners up at the finale in March and investors pool their funds to invest $200,000 in the winning company. 

Application Deadline: January 10
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Upward Labs: Net Zero Lab

The Net Zero Lab pairs innovative startups with marquee real estate owners to rapidly explore promising use cases, pilots, and commercialization opportunities. The Lab is designed for both VC-backed growth startups who want to scale with large corporations, as well as pre-commercial startups with a unique, pilot-ready product that has a lot of growth potential.

Application Deadline: January 15
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West Gate

West Gate seeks talented scientists, engineers, inventors, and innovators with promising technologies. Throughout West Gate’s two-year runway, innovators work with scientists in NREL and Colorado School of Mines' world-class laboratories to de-risk their technologies, ready them for market, and grow their startup companies. West Gate supports selected innovators with stipend assistance worth up to $225,000 and $175,000 technical assistance funding redeemable at NREL.

Application Deadline: February 14
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