The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced that it was making $30 million available to qualified small businesses to support the commercialization of promising new technologies. The source of this new small-business funding is the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and Fiscal Year 2010 budget appropriations.

Successful small-business applicants may receive up to $3 million over three years to research, develop, and deploy new technologies. Applications must be submitted by Aug. 4, 2010.

Small businesses previously awarded Phase II grants through the DOE Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) or the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs and engaged in the following technology areas of interest are eligible:

Biomass Technologies
• Harvesting/Dewatering Technology for Algal Biofuels Production.

Buildings Technologies
• Transitional Technology for Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs)
• SSL Products made from Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs)
• “Core” Technology for Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs)

Fuel Cell Technologies
• Advanced Materials for Fuel Cell Technologies
• Bio-Fueled Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

Geothermal Technologies, High Temperature Tools and Sensors
• High Temperature Downhole Tools
• High-Temperature-High-Volume Lifting
• High Temperature Downhole MWD Tools for Directional Drilling

Industrial Technologies
• Sensors and Controls
• Industrial Membrane Process Systems
• Advanced Materials
• Integrated Reaction-Separation using non-thermal processes
• Mitigation of Heat Losses, Fouling, and Scaling in key Manufacturing Unit Operations

Solar Technologies - Lowering the Cost of Photovoltaics through Innovative Augmentation
• Lightweight, Flexible and Low Cost Multi-junction Solar Cells
• Static Module PV Concentrators
• New Methods of Crystallizing Silicon

Vehicle Technologies
• Technologies to Address Internal Heating in DC Bus Capacitors
• Improved Magnetic Materials for Motors
• Advanced Materials for Lightweight Vehicles

Wind Technologies
• Advanced Wind Power Technologies and Systems

Fossil Energy
• Pollution control
• Advanced power systems
• Stationary power fuel cells
• Clean fuels
• Carbon sequestration
• Recovery of oil, natural gas, and methane hydrates
• Advances in materials, sensors, monitors, controls, biotechnology, and computational processes

Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability
• Smart Grid Technologies and Systems
• Electric Transmission Technologies
• Superconducting Technology for Power Equipment
• Advanced Materials for Power Electronics and Energy Storage

Nuclear Energy
• Advanced Instrumentation and Control, Radiation Resistant Sensors, and Wireless On-Line Monitoring Systems for Nuclear Power Plant Applications

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