Congratulations to the 23 EPIC Round 3 Phase 1 winners who will now advance to compete in the next round of the funding program!  

These incubators and accelerators demonstrated a dedication to clean energy entrepreneurship, and each received $150,000 for their efforts to support energy startups and entrepreneurs in their communities.  

 

Phase 1 Winners  

Phase 1 winners come from across the U.S. and its territories, representing a wide range of regions and energy tech industries.  

 

The EPIC Round 3 Phase 1 winners are:  

  •    AirMiners (San Francisco, CA)  
  •    Alpha-X (Alpharetta, GA)  
  •    Arrowhead Center and New Mexico State University (Las Cruces, NM)  
  •    Black & Veatch IgniteX Accelerator (Overland Park, KS)  
  •    BRITE Energy Innovators (Warren, OH)  
  •    Carbon and Hydrogen Innovation and Learning Incubator (Houston, TX)  
  •    Cascadia Cleantech Accelerator (Portland, OR)  
  •    Centrepolis Accelerator and NexCorps Accelerator (Southfield, MI & Rochester, NY)  
  •    ClimateHaven (New Haven, CT)  
  •    Dominion Energy Innovation Center (Ashland, VA)  
  •    Dream.org (Pittsburg, PA)
  •    Elemental Excelerator (Honolulu, HI)  
  •    FusionForge (Fort Collins, CO)  
  •    Home Energy Efficiency Team (Boston, MA)  
  •    Launch Alaska (Anchorage, AK)
  •    mHUB (Chicago, IL)  
  •    Missouri Innovation Center (Columbia, MO)  
  •    Newlab (Brooklyn, NY)  
  •    Parallel18 (San Juan, Puerto Rico)  
  •    Spark Innovation Center (Knoxville, TN)  
  •    Terra EPIC (Tulsa, OK)  
  •    U.S. Research Impact Alliance Corp (Morgantown, WV)  
  •    Urban Future Lab (Brooklyn, NY)  

You can find more information about the prize, teams, and the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Technology Transitions on energy.gov.

Read the full announcement on energy.gov.