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
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. |
| Anderson Clean Energy | Anderson, SC | Bosch is repurposing their facility located in South Carolina for domestic manufacturing of electrolyzer stacks for the North American market. |
| Million-Mile Fuel Cell Trucks | Billerica, MA | Boston Materials is expanding its operations to manufacture bipolar plates, potentially solving a key issue of fuel cell trucks with advanced materials, patented technologies, feedstocks, and factories that are 100% US-based. |
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 engaged with their community to develop a vision for their future clean energy or decarbonization project. Phase 2 winners were 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. |
| Delaware Sustainable Clean Energy Coalition | Newark, DE | Planning a comprehensive roadmap to enable economic stability and resilience through cleantech industries and workforce development. |
| Son Solar Mississippi | Mendenhall, MS | Creating a roadmap for clean energy manufacturing, economic development, and job creation in low-to-middle income rural communities. |
| Innovate Jonesboro | Jonesboro, ME | Developing a clear and actionable plan for a thriving clean energy manufacturing industry for job creation and economic growth. |
| Joliet Commercialization Coalition LLC | Joliet, MT | Establishing the region as a leading center for clean energy manufacturing by leveraging unique resources and community strengths. |
| Make It Mohawk Valley | Mohawk, NY | Showcasing the Mohawk Valley as a place where clean energy manufacturers can thrive through collaboration and outreach. |
| Rosebud Sioux Tribe MAKE IT Team | Rosebud, SD | Driving economic growth by integrating clean energy manufacturing and workforce development on the Rosebud Reservation. |
| The Metal Fuels Alliance | Ashland, VA | Promoting industrial decarbonization and enhancing energy security through aluminum power system technologies and stakeholder collaboration. |
| Project 81 | Chickasha, OK | Establishing advanced manufacturing incubators along US Highway 81 to modernize Oklahoma's manufacturing base. |
| WE-MADE | Edinburg, TX | Gathering manufacturers and community representatives to develop a strategic roadmap for wind energy manufacturing. |
| Northern AZ Regional Energy & Educational Tech | St. Johns, AZ | Establishing a national clean energy manufacturing hub to provide economic stability, skilled jobs, and sustainable growth opportunities. |
Phase 3: Activate
Phase 3 winners were awarded $250,000 each for creating customized regional roadmaps for attracting clean energy manufacturing, demonstrating the necessary stakeholder engagement and partner commitments to bring clean energy manufacturing to their communities, and securing commitments from clean energy manufactures.
| Team Name | Location | Project Description |
|---|---|---|
| Illinois Clean Tech Economy Coalition (CTEC) | Chicago, IL | Created a grid modernization technology manufacturing cluster roadmap to drive inclusive economic growth in the Chicago metropolitan area. |
| NextCorps | Rochester, NY | Developing a hub for clean energy entrepreneurs and repurposing unused manufacturing facilities to provide regional economic benefits. |
| Post-COVID Clean Energy Supply Chain Manufacturing Roadmap | Cleveland, OH | Organizing a strategic push for clean energy in Northeast Ohio, building on its manufacturing heritage to grow resilient, sustainable industries. |
| Berkshire Clean Tech Consortium | Pittsfield, MA | Building a cluster of clean tech manufacturing in Western Massachusetts as part of the regional ecosystem. |
| Project Hermes: Advancing Tulsa's Clean Energy Manufacturing | Tulsa, OK | Enhancing domestic clean energy manufacturing and improving regional quality of life by accelerating local ecosystem growth. |