CalSEED

Supports early-stage entrepreneurs in delivering clean energy, efficiency, or storage projects while considering equity of access and benefit to serve California’s most vulnerable populations. As a first step in California’s innovation pipeline, the program incubates energy concepts. It readies them for investment and deployment by providing professional development services and direct, non-dilutive grant-based funding up to $700,000.

The California Testbed Initiative (CalTestBed)

Provides more than $8.8 million in testing vouchers for California clean energy researchers and entrepreneurs to conduct third-party testing in more than 70 testbeds across nine University of California campuses and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.