Prizes and Challenges

Active Challenges

There are no active challenges at this time

Requests for Information (RFIs)

Closed - Potential Prize: “Water Security Grand Challenge Produced Water Prize”

Closed - Potential Prize: “Water Security Grand Challenge Thermoelectric Cooling Prize”

Past Challenges

Potential Prize: “DAC Commercial CDR Purchase Pilot Prize”

Teams develop and fulfill innovative, technically robust, validated, and commercial-scale CDR purchase agreements.

Potential Prize: “Direct Air Capture Pre-Commercial Tech Prize”

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

Potential Prize: “Direct Air Capture Commercial Prize”

Teams scale up their existing direct air capture (DAC) technology to achieve a CO2 removal target.

“Direct Air Capture Pre-Commercial EPIC Prize”

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

SMART Visualization Platform Prize Challenge

The goal of this software development prize challenge is to create a new intuitive data visualization tool for the subsurface environment that can be readily accessible by scientists, engineers, subsurface operators, and decision makers.

Electricity Industry Technology and Practices Innovation Challenge

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Electricity (OE) Electricity Industry Technology and Practices Innovation Challenge (EITPIC) aims to further technology advancement and utilization by identifying opportunities to utilize technology that will creatively transform current electric utility industry practice(s)