Seeding Critical Advances For Leading Energy Technologies With Untapped Potential (SCALEUP) Ready
This program provides funding to teams developing innovative energy technologies that have previously received ARPA-E support, helping them scale their projects for commercial viability and competitiveness in the global market.
The SCALEUP Ready program, issued by the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) within the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), aims to support the scaling of high-risk and potentially disruptive energy technologies. This initiative focuses on advancing innovations previously funded by ARPA-E, addressing technical and commercial challenges that arise after early-stage research and development (R&D). The program seeks to translate bench-scale advancements into commercially viable technologies by providing funding for pre-commercial scaling projects. These projects will help establish performance and cost parameters, integrate technologies into broader systems, and validate manufacturability and reliability, ensuring that U.S. innovations can compete in global markets. Eligible projects must be based on technologies developed under prior ARPA-E funding, with a patent filed or obtained. Applicants must demonstrate a clear path to commercialization and build a project team with the capabilities to scale energy technologies. Standalone applicants are not eligible. The program covers a broad range of energy applications, and successful applicants must align their proposals with ARPA-E’s statutory goals, including energy security, emissions reduction, and U.S.-based manufacturing.
Award Range
$5,000,000 - $20,000,000
Total Program Funding
Not specified
Number of Awards
Not specified
Matching Requirement
Yes - 33% match required
Eligible Applicants
Additional Requirements
Only organizations seeking to scale subject inventions that meet the following criteria are eligible for funding under this program. Subject inventions: 1. Must have been conceived or first actually reduced to practice during an ARPA-E award; 2. Must have been reported in the iEdison system; and 3. Must be the subject of a filed U.S patent application, which may be a provisional application, or an issued U.S. patent also reported in iEdison (excepting some software products described in Section II.B). Organizations may also leverage software that was previously developed and reported (in technical reports or otherwise) under an ARPA-E award, will be used in manufacturing, is used as “firmware” in manufactured products, or is deployed on energy infrastructure or energy systems. For both subject inventions and software, note that ARPA-E seeks Applications for projects that validate scalability, reliability, and domestic manufacturability, and Applicants are required to agree to the U.S. Competitiveness Provision requirements detailed in Section VII.B.3 as part of an award under this NOFO. SCALEUP Ready Applicants are not required to have participated in the original ARPA-E award – for example, Applicants may have licensed or purchased rights in such subject inventions or software and thereby become eligible for SCALEUP Ready. This NOFO is open to the following Applicants that propose to scale subject inventions or software that have resulted from ARPA-E awards: i) Current and former ARPA-E awardees (except Institutions of Higher Education6F 7 and FFRDCs/DOE Labs) that own/control subject invention(s) or software arising from their ARPA-E award(s); ii) Entities that are owners or exclusive licensees7F 8 of subject invention(s) or software arising from any ARPA-E award(s); or iii) Consortia – specified below – that have title to or are exclusive licensees of subject invention(s) or software arising from an ARPA-E award.
Geographic Eligibility
All
Application Opens
October 2, 2024
Application Closes
September 29, 2029
Grantor
US Department of Energy (Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy )
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