Businesses will have the ability to work with 12 different national laboratories
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced 43 small businesses will participate in the second round of the Small Business Vouchers (SBV) pilot. With vouchers in hand, these businesses can better leverage the world-class capabilities of the department’s national laboratories and bring their next-generation clean-energy technologies to the marketplace faster.
“We need to accelerate the pace of clean energy innovation to build a stronger economy and a brighter, cleaner future for our nation,” said David Friedman, acting assistant secretary for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). “The Small Business Vouchers pilot breaks down barriers for some of our greatest entrepreneurial minds, which allows them to work with our national laboratories across sectors and industries to accelerate a clean-energy revolution that’s been underway since 2008.”