Provide support, build trust, and strengthen partnerships with underserved communities while advancing the clean energy transition.

The Solar Prize Round 7 offers $4.2 million in prizes to competitors over three progressive contests.

Empowering utilities with limited cybersecurity resources to make critical investments in hardening their systems against threats.

Fast-tracks the efforts of solar developers to learn and grow their operations to support multiple, successful community solar projects.

Class of 2023-2024: Challenging multidisciplinary student teams to design and model solar-plus-storage systems for a campus or district.

Identifying and engaging Puerto Rican households for solar and battery storage installations, with a focus on vulnerable residents.

Developing a cost-effective and sustainable recycling industry for fiber-reinforced composites and rare earth elements in wind turbines

Catalyzing domestic manufacturing of critical clean energy technology components.

Enabling vibrant clean energy technology manufacturing activity in communities.

College students: Compete to solve real-world geothermal technical and policy challenges for a chance at thousands in DOE prize funding!

Advancing clean energy programming, opportunities, and connections for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

Teams identify a critical need in the direct air capture (DAC) industry, develop a solution, and test the idea to a degree of scale.