Validate innovative technologies to benefit operations, optimize performance, and improve productivity with support from DOE's National Labs. Results are shared broadly to help the industrial sector understand the viability of a solution while mitigating many of the risks associated with being the first to install an emerging technology.
ITV is a technology-agnostic, but prioritizes the validation of emerging technologies that can significantly boost operational productivity, optimize performance or product quality, and enhance market competitiveness. This includes technologies with cross-sector applications such as industrial AI, industrial load flexibility, fuel combustion systems, fuel-flexible process heating, membrane separations, water supply and treatment, and others. The program also targets sector-specific solutions for industries including iron and steel, cement and concrete, chemicals and refining, forest products, food and beverage, data centers, and others.
ITV requires two organizations to team up and apply jointly to participate: a technology developer and a host site. Technology developers provide the equipment or technology to be tested. Host sites provide the facility where the installation will occur, manage the installation, and provide performance data from both the existing baseline system and the newly installed technology. To facilitate the creation of technology developer/host site teams, organizations may provide their contact information to a public teaming partner list. You can view or sign up for the teaming partner list and apply to the current opportunity here.
ITV was established to provide unbiased evaluations of the performance of emerging industrial technologies in real-world operating conditions. This collaborative initiative brings together technology developers and industrial host sites, where the technology developer provides the equipment/technology for validation, and the host site agrees to install the technology and necessary equipment at their facility and share data about the technology's performances.
Funding is available for technology demonstration participants, with independent performance evaluations completed by National Labs. Awards of up to $400,000 are available to technology developer/host site teams to offset the costs of implementing new technology for the ITV program, such as equipment purchases and staff time.
To participate, technology developers and industrial host sites must apply jointly; technology developers without a committed host site will not be eligible to apply. However, to facilitate connections between technology developers and potential host sites, DOE is hosting a teaming partner list where interested parties may provide their contact information. Full details on the solicitation and the teaming partner list can be found here.
Awardees will be required to work closely with DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), which will support the design and implementation of robust technology evaluation plans and develop a technical report on the technology's performance and impact, which will be published on the ITV validation report library. Participants will be required to provide at least 50% cost share for a portion of each project.
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