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FLOWIN Prize — Phase Two: U.S. Manufacturing Approaches

Pays US floating-wind teams $450,000 each to plan offshore turbine manufacturing.

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The full FLOWIN Prize runs in three phases with a shrinking pool of winners at each step. Phase One, Qualification and Teaming, funded up to nine winners with $100,000 in cash and a $75,000 technical services voucher each, for identifying the critical hurdles to commercializing a floating platform design and showing real progress toward a domestic supply chain. Phase Two, covered here, is open onl

Phase Two of the FLOWIN Prize is only for teams already selected in Phase One, working to advance floating offshore wind turbine platform designs toward domestic manufacturing. It wants concrete plans for mass production and assembly of floating offshore wind platforms in the United States, strengthening the domestic supply chain.

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Next deadlineiThe next date applications are due. Rolling means you can apply any time.-
Decision timeiTypical time from the deadline to the funder's decision.-
Project durationiHow long the funded work is expected to run.-
Award typeiThe form of funding - grant, equity, loan, tax credit, etc.Prize
Match fundingiThe share of project costs you must cover yourself. 0% = fully funded.-
Funding pooliThe total budget available across all awards in this round.-

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Upskill Prize for the Solar Manufacturing Workforce

🇺🇸SETO · United States

Pays U.S. solar manufacturers and training organizations up to $500,000 each to train new or incumbent workers for the solar manufacturing workforce.

Energy TechAdvanced Manufacturing
$500K
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MAKE IT Prize Strategies Track

🇺🇸DOE OTT · United States

Pays regional teams up to $250,000 to build a roadmap and secure manufacturer commitments for critical energy technology manufacturing in their community.

Energy TechAdvanced Manufacturing
$50K – $250K
DOE Solar Energy Technologies Office logo
Open

American-Made PRIME Prize

🇺🇸SETO · United States

Funds U.S. solar manufacturers and innovators registering photovoltaic modules and inverters with the EPEAT ecolabel through a prize competition.

Energy TechAdvanced Manufacturing+1
US Department of Energy logo
Closed

American-Made Solar Prize Round 1

🇺🇸DOE · United States

Awarded up to $500,000 cash and lab vouchers to solar-manufacturing innovators.

Energy TechAdvanced Manufacturing
$50K – $500K
DOE Industrial Technologies Office (ITO) logo
Closed

Industrial Energy Storage Systems Prize — Phase 3: Validate

🇺🇸DOE ITO · United States

Funds teams demonstrating prototype industrial energy storage systems through a DOE prize challenge for validated scalability.

Energy TechAdvanced Manufacturing+2
$400K
US Department of Energy logo
Closed

American-Made Challenges: Perovskite Startup Prize

🇺🇸DOE · United States

Paid new US for-profit companies cash and lab vouchers to move perovskite solar-cell research out of the lab and into commercial manufacturing.

Energy TechAdvanced Manufacturing+1
$40K – $700K