IMPEL is a Department of Energy tech-to-market program focused on building technologies, funded by the Building Technologies Office and implemented by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Donor Name: Department of Energy
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Program
Deadline: 11/15/2022
Details:
Their program helps early-stage individuals from business, academia, and DOE’s national labs translate the premise and promise of their technology into the language of business, boosting their chances of bringing it to market. These individuals–or as they call them, IMPEL Innovators–have a passion for the building lifecycle (design, construction, operations, and circular technologies) and for energy technologies that integrate with buildings (onsite renewables or grid integration incorporating electrification, energy storage, and electric vehicle charging). The buildings sector has been notoriously challenging for bringing tech-to-market, where many new projects or businesses fall victim to the notorious ‘valleys of death’.
IMPEL has a strong theory of change: Support technological transformations for net zero built infrastructure, that promotes equitable wellness and resilience for all.
Innovators have projects that drive:
- Decarbonization: Radically reduce embodied and operational carbon and drive circularity for a zero-carbon built environment;
- Digitalization: Integrate data-driven intelligence and connectedness across buildings and buildings-edge (distributed energy resources, (micro-)grid, and communities;
- Democratization: Provide equitable access to wellness in a resilient, living environment.
Eligibility Criteria
- Entrepreneurs & Small Businesses who work in the built environment space such as engineering, architecture, urban design, facilities and real estate, healthy buildings, energy services, microgrids, data science etc.
- National Lab Staff who conduct building and energy research
- Non-Lab Awardees who have won Federal Opportunity Announcement Awards, Small Business Awards etc.
- Faculty & Graduate Students who conduct building science R&D, or from BTO-affiliated university programs such as Solar Decathlon, JUMP into STEM, and others
- Building Professionals who have new building innovation program ideas
- Please note that IMPEL is open only to U.S. residents.
For more information, visit IMPEL.