Bipartisan group led by @ChrisCoons @LindseyGrahamSC @repbenraylujan @RepJoeWilson have long advocated that @ENERGY should have an affiliated foundation just as NIH, USDA, & other major R&D agencies do
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In today’s
@ITIFdc report,@jetta_wong & I put some flesh on the bones of this concept. We call for an Energy Technology Commercialization Foundation with mission of strengthening US competitiveness in a carbon-constrained worldShow this thread -
Why? There’s no entity in the US energy innovation system with responsibility to fill the gap between basic research & scale uppic.twitter.com/D3LAzjLzNy
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That’s a good thing – we don’t want a top-down system. But more entities have to play the role of linking research to the market. Few foundations do so nowpic.twitter.com/P0KbuMIb53
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Congress has authorized many non-profit, agency-related already including
@GoParks The closest to our vision is@FNIH_Org but the DOE version would still be quite different https://fnih.org/Show this thread -
It would build collaboration btw DOE & innovators around (1) cross-cutting national challenges & (2) regional energy innovation ecosystemspic.twitter.com/30Ct5Aux5z
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It would fund innovation organizations of various sorts to access DOE facilities & expertise, do training, mature technologies, & convene stakeholderspic.twitter.com/hwcsIbslf2
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Congressional authorization is critical! Establish mission, allow fed officials to serve on board & streamline mechanisms for ETCF & DOE to work together.
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Foundation concept (to be clear, not our vision) has been endorsed by
@TheAEIC http://americanenergyinnovation.org/2020/02/energy-innovation-supporting-the-full-innovation-lifecycle/ …Show this thread -
"The need for an Energy Technology Commercialization Foundation is urgent. The United States, in spite of its scientific prowess, is not making rapid enough progress toward solving the diverse and difficult decarbonization challenges it faces.”https://itif.org/publications/2020/05/11/mind-gap-design-new-energy-technology-commercialization-foundation …
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