Shaping Energy Investments
Engaging Federal Government
A path to zero-carbon emissions requires an all-encompassing energy strategy that takes advantage of new energy technologies. To advance energy technology and drive future federal investments in energy research and development, we actively engage and provide insight/connections with the Department of Energy and other agencies including:
- Office of Science
- All Applied Energy Programs
- Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)
- National Science Foundation
- Departments of Agriculture, Defense, Transportation, and Interior
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
We foster partnership and help shape energy policies/investments by maintaining relationships with all 17 Department of Energy national laboratories. Our team also has long-standing relationships with key congressional offices and Committees (House and Senate Appropriations Committees, the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, and the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee).
Results Speak Volumes
Energy
Launching a New Energy Science and Technology Initiative
Client: Leading Research University
Lewis-Burke helped a university client create and define a new basic research energy science and technology initiative. Lewis-Burke worked with leadership and program managers at the Department of Energy, the National Nuclear Security Administration, and the National Science Foundation to sponsor a workshop led by a university client to define research priorities and future facility needs to advance a promising, high-risk science and technology area.
Energy
Establish Partnerships to Win a National Quantum Center
Client: Leading Research University
Lewis-Burke helped a university client establish partnerships with national labs, industry, and other research universities to successfully compete for a Department of Energy National Quantum Initiative center.
Lewis-Burke provided the university client advance intelligence about the new large-scale center funding opportunity, but to successfully compete for the multi-disciplinary center, the university client needed to establish partnerships with other institutions and organizations.
Energy
Positioning a University’s New Capability in Materials Research for Nuclear Security
Client: Leading Research University
Lewis-Burke developed and executed a strategic plan for a university client to highlight and fully leverage a new experimental capability, raise the university’s national profile in national security and materials research, and increase research funding.
Unique Integrated Approach
Awareness, Scope, and Capability
Lewis-Burke positions clients for energy research and development wins. Remaining focused on federal research and funding priorities, we prepare clients for a broad range of opportunities in energy research and development. This includes new research initiatives, large-scale centers/institutes, and prize competitions. We also follow significant changes in the federal landscape, like changes to organizational structure, the management of financial assistance awards, and regulations and security practices.
Trends to Watch
Adopting and expanding clean energy requires a regional approach. Expect the launch of new regional energy innovation centers to help coordinate regional research, development, demonstration, and deployment activities for clean energy technologies.
A quantum internet will revolutionize networking and communications. Federal research agencies are gearing up for significant investments in both the foundational science and new technologies needed to build the first quantum internet in the world.
Energy Frontier Research Centers bring together multi-disciplinary scientific teams to tackle energy grand challenges, compete for awards and train the next-generation scientific workforce. The competition will be aggressive to earn these awards.
Fundamental Energy Research
Lewis-Burke’s energy coverage includes fundamental energy research and discovery science at the Department of Energy. Our experts are knowledgeable about research priorities in materials sciences and engineering, chemical sciences, geosciences, biosciences, applied mathematics and computer science, earth systems and environmental research, plasma physics and fusion energy sciences, and particle and nuclear physics.
We track new cross-cutting research initiatives — quantum information science, artificial intelligence, engineering biology, and advanced communications. Our team provides advance intelligence on funding opportunities and helps clients apply their research more directly to energy challenges, including larger-scale funding opportunities (eg. Energy Frontier Research Centers, Bioenergy Research Centers, and chemical and materials research centers).
Applied Energy
The Lewis-Burke applied energy portfolio focuses on research, development, and demonstration of all clean energy technologies. We monitor energy research investments and opportunities at the Department of Energy and other federal agencies with energy interests and needs, including in renewables, energy storage, energy efficiency technologies, advanced nuclear energy systems, industrial emissions reduction technologies, and fossil energy coupled with carbon capture, storage, and utilization.
Our team helps clients take advantage of larger-scale opportunities related to systems integration, grid modernization, and advanced manufacturing. With connections across the Department of Energy, and its national laboratories, as well as other key federal agencies, we help foster partnerships with congressional energy and armed services committees that advance research and funding priorities.
Energy and Nuclear Security
Lewis-Burke’s energy practice focuses on helping clients work with federal agencies to advance technology and innovative solutions to protect America’s electrical grid from cyber threats and address growing nuclear security challenges. By combining policy expertise with substantive knowledge we are able to drive research and development opportunities that help make the grid more robust, more resilient, and easier to repair.
Our team also has a deeply knowledge of the research, development, technology, and evaluation programs at the National Nuclear Security Administration and academic partnership opportunities — including centers of excellence and university consortia. This understanding, expertise and history lets the energy team help clients successfully navigate federal opportunities.
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Vision. Knowledge. Understanding.
Our ability to shape future energy research opportunities and provide advice on successful strategies puts our clients ahead. We have long-standing relationships with the makers and shapers across the spectrum of agencies, lab groups, committees and funding entities that allow our client priorities become a reality. Take the next step.