Green Jobs Award / Capital Access Program

[From Green For All website] Green For All has partnered with SJF Advisory Services to launch the inaugural Green Jobs Award. The goal of this Award is to identify, recognize, and promote private companies that are leaders in creating quality green jobs. By honoring private businesses that contribute to both the economy and the environment, we aim to accelerate best practices in sustainable business, including creating an industry-standard definition for the term "green job."

If you own a profitable green business, please apply now! Not only will winners be recognized through a variety of media outlets, they will also be rewarded with free professional services.

We are also pleased to announce the formation of a Capital Access Program Twitter feed. This feed will focus exclusively on providing the type of information the green business community needs.

Tweets from http://twitter.com/greenforallBiz will have links to informative articles, updates on relevant policies, notifications about useful events, and tips on how to grow a sustainable enterprise. If you have a Twitter account and care about green business issues, please consider following us!

Best,
Nick Flores
Program Manager, Capital Access Program

Market-based energy efficiency grants

The Climate Protection Partnerships Division seeks proposals from eligible entities to advance national, regional, state, and local energy efficiency programming by utilizing market-based approaches to program design and delivery by fostering information exchange on policies that are supportive of these approaches. Proposals must demonstrate the potential to create a sustainable change in the market for energy efficient products, services, and best practices. Proposed activities must address, but are not limited to, one or more of the following objectives:
Improving energy performance in the residential and commercial/government market through increased use of high-efficiency products;
Increasing supply/market share for high efficiency products through retail, internet sales (e-tail), and other sales outlets;
Delivering improved energy performance to existing commercial buildings (e.g., offices, schools, hotels, hospitals, supermarkets, datacenters, etc.) through technology or practice;
Promoting improved energy performance in the commercial new construction market;
Promote CHP as clean distributed generation in developing state and local energy and environmental strategies;
CHP’s inclusion in energy performance measurement and rating systems to demonstrate with robust measurement and verification, CHP’s contribution as an energy efficiency measure and its capacity to reduce GHG emissions, and;
Providing information and technical assistance at the state or regional level about policies and programs that have been effective in maximizing energy savings and GHG emission reductions within the utility sector.

Small Biz & Energy grants

Washington, DC- U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today that $30 million in funding from the Recovery Act and FY 2010 budget appropriations will be made available to qualified small businesses to support the commercialization of promising new technologies. Today's funding announcement builds on the Department's existing efforts under the Small Business Innovation Research program (SBIR) and the Small Business Technology Transfer program (STTR) to develop near-term clean energy technologies and support American small businesses that will play an important role in building the clean energy economy of the future. This is the first time DOE has offered Phase III awards under these small business programs.

Small companies previously awarded Phase II grants through DOE's Small Business Innovation Research program (SBIR) or the Small Business Technology Transfer program (STTR) are eligible. Projects that include developed technologies with a strong potential for commercialization and impact on U.S. manufacturing and job creation are encouraged to apply. Successful applicants may receive up to $3 million over 3 years to research, develop and deploy new technologies.

Applications are currently being accepted for the following technology areas of interest:

Biomass Technologies; Buildings Technologies; Fuel Cell Technologies; Geothermal Technologies - High Temperature Tools and Sensors; Industrial Technologies; Solar Technologies - Lowering the Cost of Photovoltaics through Innovative Augmentation;
Vehicle Technologies; Wind Technologies; Fossil Energy; Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability; and Nuclear Energy.

The deadline for submission of applications is August 4, 2010, at 8:00 p.m. EST.
For more information about the DOE FY 2010 Phase III Xlerator Program please visit the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

Early Career Research Program

The Office of Science of the Department of Energy hereby invites grant applications for support under the Early Career Research Program in the following program areas: Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR); Biological and Environmental Research (BER); Basic Energy Sciences (BES), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES); High Energy Physics (HEP), and Nuclear Physics (NP). The purpose of this program is to support the development of individual research programs of outstanding scientists early in their careers and to stimulate research careers in the areas supported by the DOE Office of Science.

Expected Number of Awards: 50
Estimated Total Program Funding: $6,000,000
Deadline: Nov. 9, 2010