DOE RFQ: Pilot-scale Rapid Operational Validation of key Energy Infrastructure Technologies (PROVE IT) – Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)

Notice ID: 89243625QCD000019

Related Notice: DE-FOA-0003123

The Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) is issuing a solicitation titled “Pilot-scale Rapid Operational Validation of key Energy Infrastructure Technologies (PROVE IT)” under the OCED Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.

This solicitation supports the validation of existing pilot projects or subsystems in a relevant industrial environment to:

1. increase their technology readiness to the point of being able to be integrated in a large clean energy infrastructure project, and
2. increase their adoption readiness level to medium/high. OCED will prioritize technologies and application use cases that exhibit technological diversity when compared to the existing OCED portfolio of demonstration projects or that have not already been demonstrated at a scale larger than the proposed project.

The PROVE IT solicitation will support small businesses conducting research and development efforts aimed at operational validation in relevant operational environments of a pilot-scale unit before it can be deemed ready for a large-scale demonstration project or its commercialization. A successful offer for this solicitation will focus on a technology having the following characteristics:

• It has been fully vetted in a laboratory environment, but a component or subsystem still needs testing as part of a fully integrated system in an industrial-relevant environment.
• It presents significant adoption challenges across one or more core risk areas of the DOE adoption readiness level.
• It has shown to have significant potential impact in the industry of reference …

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