Designed to stimulate innovative approaches that reduce the costs and environmental impact of critical material recovery from e-scrap.

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

Developing energy storage solutions that can accommodate cooling, thermal, and/or electric energy loads at the industrial facility size.

Propose transformative energy storage solutions that address niche markets and inform the DOE’s strategy to accelerate grid modernization.

Regional incubators develop creative and impactful plans to support entrepreneurs and innovators in the direct air capture (DAC) space.

Seeking designs for microbatteries to support new uses for small electronic devices with improved performance, safety, and recyclability.

The Geophone Prize will catalyze the development of high temperature, downhole seismic monitoring for enhanced geothermal systems (EGS).

The cement industry is responsible for ~8% of global CO2 emissions and is facing significant pressure to decarbonize the production process

The $2.25M SiC Packaging Prize invites competitors to propose, design, build, and test packaging prototypes that advance the industry.

MPLAN prizes provide resources to MSIs to further develop ideas, facilitate research and development, and engage stakeholders.

A pitch competition program designed to infuse capital directly into startups nominated by previous EPIC Prize incubators.

Develop systems that use low-cost solar-thermal energy to help clean water produced by oil & gas extraction & other industrial activities.