Deadline: 28-Jul-22
The California Energy Commission’s Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) is seeking applications to provide financial assistance to help clean energy entrepreneurs successfully advance their emerging best-of-class innovative technology to the Low-Rate Initial Production (LRIP) stage.
LRIP is the first step in making the transition from highly customized hand-built prototypes, which are used for performance testing and vetting the production process, to the final mass-produced end product produced in the Full-Rate Production phase.
This solicitation is targeting companies with emerging best-of-class innovative technologies that have achieved an established full-scale prototype and are seeking to move from one-off production to a pilot production line. Companies with established production lines for their proposed emerging technology are not eligible for this solicitation.
Projects must fall within one of the following eligible technology categories:
- Energy Efficiency
- End-use Electrification
- Energy Storage
- Zero- and Negative Carbon Emissions Electric Generation (Renewable Generation)
Funding Information
- There is up to $40,834,000 available for grants awarded under this solicitation.
- The minimum funding amount for each project is $1,000,000.
- The maximum funding amount is $3,000,000.
Eligibility Criteria
This solicitation requires the prime applicant to be a for-profit commercial entity or individual with the rights to commercialize the intellectual property being advanced under the proposed project. The following entities are not eligible to be prime applicants for projects under this solicitation:
- Local publicly owned electric utilities
- Public and private universities
- National Labs
- Utilities
- Private non-profit research organizations, and
- End-use customers of the proposed technology.
For more information, visit https://www.energy.ca.gov/solicitations/2022-04/gfo-21-304-realizing-accelerated-manufacturing-and-production-clean-energy