Funding Opportunities

Grants/Awards/Fellowships

The FY2025 Energy Seed Grant for Innovation application will open in early September. We are expecting ~$1M in funding to be available for these seed grants thanks to new legislation.

Seed Grant Application
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Competitive funding opportunities not only bring financial rewards, but also prestige and opportunities for professional growth. View currently available opportunities for students, faculty and research teams.

 

 

Climate Catalytic (C3) Fund (Apply Here)- From the State Legislature in 2023 Econ. Dev. § 10-855: 

The purpose of the Fund is to promote geographical impact remedies and to leverage increased private capital investment in technology development and deployment, including project planning, to:

(1) reduce greenhouse gas emissions and enable the adoption of measures to combat climate impacts;
(2) facilitate the electrification of the transportation sector and the use of sustainable alternative fuels in aviation;
(3) enable improvements in energy management and efficiency to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the building sector;
(4) expand the deployment of clean energy generation and energy storage capacity;
(5) target the implementation of energy and weatherization measures for low- to moderate-income households;
(6) optimize the economic, health, social, and environmental value of community-scale infrastructure for resilience and energy equity;
(7) allow for the deployment of advanced clean energy technology; and
(8) provide for the creation of a Maryland Green Bond program.

AES Energy Innovation Challenge - This challenge encourages graduate students to explore new solutions for the energy industry while providing real-world experience and networking opportunities and addressing critical energy challenges.

Solar District Cup - a collegiate competition designed to bring together multidisciplinary teams to design energy systems for a mixed-use campus or district. Diverse students in engineering, urban planning, finance, sustainability, communications, and related majors will form teams to reimagine how energy is generated, managed, and used.

Sony Research Award - The Sony Research Award Program provides funding for cutting-edge academic research and helps build a collaborative relationship between faculty and Sony researchers. With awards up to $150,000 USD* per year for each accepted proposal, both the Faculty Innovation Award and Focused Research Award create new opportunities for university faculties and research institutions to engage in pioneering research that could drive new technologies, industries and the future.

 

Since 2008, Ms. Barbara Hulka has provided the Hulka Energy Research Fellowship to support graduate student research in selected alternative energy fields at the University of Maryland Energy Innovation Institute (MEI2). This announcement serves as a request for proposals for engineering graduate student(s) and their faculty advisor(s) to seek funding to pursue new research in one of the following research areas:

  • advanced solar energy conversion,
  • fuels and power from sustainable biological processes,
  • renewable wind energy,
  • ocean thermal or wave energy or geothermal energy conversion

The University of Maryland Energy Innovation Institute (MEI2) is privileged to offer the Harry K. Wells Fellowship.  Mr. Harry K. Wells established an endowment to support engineering graduate student research in energy at the University of Maryland (UMD). This announcement serves as a request for proposals for engineering graduate student(s) and their faculty advisor(s) to seek funding to pursue new research in the field of sustainable energy generation and/or storage.