MAKE IT Prize Results
Through two distinct tracks - Facilities Track and Strategies Track - the MAKE IT Prize aims to award approximately $30 million to promote and enable domestic manufacturing of critical energy technology components while engaging communities to catalyze manufacturing activity at the regional level.
Facilities Track
Phase 1: Scope
In Phase 1 of the Facilities Track, winners were awarded $500,000 each and advanced to the Phase 2: Shovel-Ready.
Phase 1 Winners
- Ballard's Fuel Cell Engine Manufacturing Facility
- CellCube Lean Energy Assembly Network (CCLEAN)
- Ceramic NaSICON Membranes for LDES
- Components for Fuel Cell Trucks: 100% Made in US
- Conformable Hydrogen Tanks for Production Capacity
- H2 Electrolyzers for North American Market
- Hybrid Transformer–Power Electronics Equipment Manufacturing
- Linde Hydrogen Storage Vessel
- Securing America’s Vanadium Electrolyte Supply
- BIG-TON H2 Storage Vessel Assembly Plant
- Electrocatalyst for Clean Hydrogen and LDES
- Manufacturing a Pipe for Safer Hydrogen Pipelines
- New York Battery and Stored Energy Demonstration
As part of the work to compete in Phase 2, competitors will identify and secure the final location of their facility.
Phase 2: Shovel-Ready
In Phase 2 of the Facilities Track teams secured the final location of their manufacturing facility. They demonstrated they are “shovel-ready” for facility construction including control of a site, permits, financing, and proof of community engagement. Phase 2 winners are being determined through up to four submission deadlines.
Phase 2 winners include:
| Team Name | Location | Project Description |
|---|---|---|
| Stryten Energy | Augusta, GA | Repurposing a shuttered facility in Augusta, GA as a new high-volume continuous reactor vanadium electrolyte production facility. |
| Switched Source, LLC | Chicago, IL | Expanding production capacity for a power-electronics-based transformer solution for electric distribution utilities, or “Phase-EQ”. |
| Urban Electric Power | Kingston, NY | Building a rechargeable battery plant that will use innovative equipment and methods to produce battery energy storage systems (BESS) for long-duration energy storage (LDES) applications. |
Strategies Track
Phase 1: Engage
In Phase 1 of the Strategies Track, winners were awarded $50,000 each for their clean energy roadmaps and advanced to Phase 2: Create.
Phase 1 Winners
- An Engagement Project for South Texas Wind Energy
- Beatrice Nebraska Clean Energy Manufacturing
- Berkshire Clean Tech Initiative (BCTI)
- Chicago Grid Mod Manufacturing Initiative
- Driving Climate Tech Solutions & Job Growth in NY
- Empowering Lifecycle Clean Energy in Tulsa
- Evansville Energy Nucleus
- Greening the Great Plains: OK Resilient Energy Hub
- Manufacturing Action Plan
- Manufacturing Energy Solutions & Advancement in NM
- NextCorps Rochester Clean Energy Manufacturing Hub
- Northeast Ohio Clean Manufacturing Partnership
- Regional Energy and Educational Tech Center
- Building A Climate Resilient Future for All (Delaware)
- Clean Energy Manufacturing in Mendenhall, MS (Mississippi)
- Creating the Equitable Clean Energy Future (Georgia)
- Inland SoCal for Advanced Manufacturing (California)
- Innovate Jonesboro (Maine)
- Joliet Commercialization Coalition (JCC) (Montana)
- Make It Mohawk Valley (New York)
- MAKE IT on the Rosebud Reservation (South Dakota)
- Metal Fuels Alliance (Virginia)
- Project 81 (Oklahoma)
- Quincy’s Strategy to “Make It” Happen! (Florida)
- South Arkansas Green Energy Project (SAGEP) (Arkansas)
Phase 2: Create
Throughout Phase 2: Create teams will engage with their community to develop a vision for their future clean energy or decarbonization project. Phase 2 winners are awarded $100,000 each and advance to Phase 3: Activate.
Phase 2 Winners Include:
| Team Name | Location | Project Description |
|---|---|---|
| Advancing Clean Energy Manufacturing | Tulsa, OK | Enhancing domestic clean energy manufacturing and regional quality of life by accelerating local ecosystem growth. |
| Beatrice Nebraska Clean Energy Manufacturing | Beatrice, NE | Leveraging regional infrastructure and implementing workforce development programs to support clean energy manufacturing. |
| Berkshire Clean Tech Initiative (BCTI) | Pittsfield, MA | Creating a roadmap for growing clean tech manufacturing in the Berkshires and supporting start-ups in the clean tech industry. |
| Chicago Grid Mod Manufacturing Initiative | Chicago, IL | Building a grid modernization technology manufacturing cluster roadmap for the Chicago MSA to drive inclusive economic growth. |
| Clean Energy Mfg. Roadmap for a Vibrant NE Ohio | Northeast OH | Leveraging northeast Ohio's manufacturing heritage to attract clean energy manufacturers, fostering innovation and sustainability for a resilient future. |
| Driving Climate Tech Solutions & Job Growth in NY | Long Island, NY | Attracting new manufacturers to expand and relocate in the Long Island, NY region, connecting them to climate tech innovators. |
| NextCorps Rochester Clean Energy Manufacturing Hub | Rochester, NY | Growing the ecosystem capacity for hardware manufacturing to foster clean energy technology-based economic development. |
Phase 3: Activate
In Phase 3 competitors will create detailed plans to carry out their clean energy or decarbonization project.