Shaping Energy Investments
Engaging Federal Government
Sustaining America’s leadership in energy requires a holistic energy strategy that takes advantage of all new energy technologies and innovations. To advance energy policy and drive future federal investments in energy research and development, we actively engage and provide insight and connections to the relevant Department of Energy (DOE) programs and other agencies including:
- DOE Office of Science,
- DOE Applied Energy Programs, including the Office of Nuclear Energy and the Office of Electricity,
- DOE Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E),
- DOE technology transfer and commercialization programs,
- DOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA),
- DOE and NNSA workforce development programs,
- National Science Foundation,
- Departments of Agriculture, Defense, Transportation, and Interior,
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
We foster partnerships and help shape national energy policy and investment by maintaining relationships with all 17 Department of Energy national laboratories; key congressional offices and Committees (such as the House and Senate Appropriations Committees; the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee; and the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee); and influential stakeholders from the academic, industrial, and non-profit sectors.
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 and institutes, and prize competitions. We also follow significant changes in the federal research landscape, including policy updates that affect security practices, and management of financial assistance awards, agency reorganizations, and congressional funding trends and outlook on major legislation.
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, particle and nuclear physics, accelerator research and development, and isotope production. Beyond research, our experts help navigate DOE STEM workforce development opportunities for undergraduate, graduate, and Ph.D students, as well as early career faculty.
We track new cross-cutting research initiatives — such as those focused on quantum information science, artificial intelligence and machine learning, microelectronics, biotechnology, and advanced communications. Our team provides advance intelligence on future funding opportunities and helps clients apply their research more directly to identified energy challenges, including through larger-scale funding opportunities (e.g. Fusion Innovation Research Engine Collaboratives, Energy Frontier Research Centers, and Energy Innovation Hubs).
Applied Energy
The Lewis-Burke applied energy portfolio focuses on research, development, demonstration, and deployment 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, fusion energy, industrial emissions reduction technologies, direct air capture and other carbon negative technologies, critical energy minerals and materials, and fossil energy coupled with carbon capture, storage, and utilization. Lewis-Burke has also been instrumental in advancing new DOE entrepreneurship, clean energy incubator, and other technology transfer and commercialization programs.
Our team helps clients take advantage of larger-scale opportunities related to systems integration, infrastructure modernization, and advanced manufacturing. Our team helps build connections with officials and key program managers at the Department of Energy and its national laboratories, as well as other key federal agencies, to understand and shape future research and development priorities. We also help advance legislation with congressional energy and national security committees that shape future research and funding priorities.
Energy and Nuclear Security
Lewis-Burke’s energy team focuses on helping clients work with federal agencies to advance technology and innovative solutions to modernize the electrical grid and better protect America’s energy infrastructure. This includes advanced grid technologies that can accommodate a diverse set of clean energy resources and protect the grid from extreme weather events and cyber and physical threats. By combining policy expertise with substantive knowledge, we drive research and development opportunities that help make the grid more robust, more resilient, and easier to repair.
Our team also is deeply knowledgeable about DOE’s nuclear security programs. This includes the research, technology development, and engineering 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.