MAKE IT Prize Round 2
Pays U.S. manufacturers up to $4.5 million per team to move critical energy-technology production facilities from planning into shovel-ready construction.
MAKE IT Prize Round 2 is run by the Department of Energy's Office of Technology Commercialization together with the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations, administered by NREL (styled here as the National Laboratory of the Rockies), and pays out roughly $32 million to move critical energy-technology manufacturing facilities from planning to shovel-ready construction. Teams first submit a short Sta…
This prize targets U.S.-based teams building or repurposing a facility to manufacture critical energy technology components, the kind of hardware needed to grow the domestic energy supply chain. It's the second round of a program that already put more than $30 million behind similar manufacturing projects.
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