– BRIDGE 2024: Bringing Rapid Innovation Development to Green Energy
Can you apply?
This grant is for early-stage clean energy companies seeking non-dilutive matching funding. Applicants must be startups with a successful publicly-funded project that has ended or is ending. Projects must fall within one of six technology categories: energy efficiency, end-use electrification, energy storage, AI/machine learning/advanced sensing, advanced power electronics, or zero/negative-carbon generation.
Companies must demonstrate market interest and have secured matching investment from private investors or commercial partners. The program prioritizes technologies with clear paths to commercialization and adoption.
⚖️ Cost sharing / matching required — applicants must contribute their own funds.
This grant is for early-stage clean energy companies seeking non-dilutive matching funding. Applicants must be startups with a successful publicly-funded project that has ended or is ending. Projects must fall within one of six technology categories: energy efficiency, end-use electrification, energy storage, AI/machine learning/advanced sensing, advanced power electronics, or zero/negative-carbon generation.
Companies must demonstrate market interest and have secured matching investment from private investors or commercial partners. The program prioritizes technologies with clear paths to commercialization and adoption.
Program description
Bringing Rapid Innovation Development to Green Energy (BRIDGE) 2024 seeks to 1) help start-up companies minimize the time between when their successful publicly-funded project ends and new public funding becomes available; and 2) mobilize more early-stage capital in the clean energy space by providing non-dilutive, matching investments in promising clean energy companies in conjunction with investors and commercial partners. BRIDGE provides increased support for the most promising clean energy technologies that have already attracted interest from the market as they are developed and continue their path to market adoption. Eligible projects must fall within one or more of the following technology categories: · Category 1: Energy Efficiency; or · Category 2: End-use Electrification; or · Category 3: Energy Storage; or · Category 4: Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning/Advanced Sensing; or · Category 5: Advanced Power Electronics/Power Conditioning; or · Category 6: Zero- and Negative-Carbon Emission Generation (Renewable Generation)
Who can apply
Eligible applicants
Details
This grant is for early-stage clean energy companies seeking non-dilutive matching funding. Applicants must be startups with a successful publicly-funded project that has ended or is ending. Projects must fall within one of six technology categories: energy efficiency, end-use electrification, energy storage, AI/machine learning/advanced sensing, advanced power electronics, or zero/negative-carbon generation.
Companies must demonstrate market interest and have secured matching investment from private investors or commercial partners. The program prioritizes technologies with clear paths to commercialization and adoption.
How to apply
Application links
Key dates & requirements
Program contact
- 📧 Angela.Hockaday@energy.ca.gov
- 📞 1-916-931-5973
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