Clean Energy Business Network

A @BCSECleanEnergy initiative, CEBN is the small business voice of the #CleanEnergy economy, working to enhance opportunities for #Cleantech businesses ⚡️

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Join us & @ENTERPRISEFN TODAY at 12 pm ET for a webinar on #SBIR funding opportunities now that the program has been reauthorized.

CEBN's @L_Abramson will cover how to prepare, find teaming partners, and create a competitive application. Register here: https://t.co/jwSMgWtXSY

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Join @ENTERPRISEFN & CEBN on June 3rd for a webinar covering SBIR/STTR funding opportunities now that the program has been reauthorized. CEBN's @L_Abramson will cover how to prepare, find teaming partners, and create a competitive application.
Register: https://t.co/JCklhkWbNl

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A 550 MW solar + battery storage project is taking shape near Goodyear, AZ. The Desert Rainbow #solar farm is projected to produce enough power to serve the equivalent of 165,000 homes. 🌈#CleanEnergy https://t.co/Elk5vtVUsD

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As we celebrate this milestone, our staff would also like to honor Dave Muchow, who served as CEBN Counsel before he sadly passed last year. Dave facilitated CEBN's transition from The Pew Charitable Trusts to BCSE nine years ago and was one of our biggest champions.

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May 1st marks the Clean Energy Business Network’s 9th anniversary as the small business voice of the U.S. energy economy. We’re grateful to our parent organization, @BCSECleanEnergy, as well as our network and partners, for their continued support throughout the years.

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🏛️ 360+ business leaders engaged in meetings w/ congressional leaders
🤝 5,200+ attendees joining us for 150+ events
📈 1,370+ funding opportunities totaling $95.6B highlighted in our Funding Database
👥 6,700+ federal funding applicants/awardees assisted as a DOE Power Connector

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@CleanEconProj unveiled their first major blueprint under the Innovation Initiative and in partnership with Waypoint Strategy Group.

Learn more about how they're empowering clean energy startups and small businesses from their website.

Link: https://t.co/x1o40yd4hS

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The first CleanEcon Blueprint is out!

The front door to America’s energy innovation system isn’t working.

@ENERGY’s SBIR should help startups scale. Instead, it often slows them down.

That’s a design problem and it’s fixable.

Here’s how → https://t.co/igilLGYgIf

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See CEBN's full statement: https://t.co/Z5gNTCOclU (3/3)

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After six months of being closed, SBIR/STTR will officially reopen after the President signed a reauthorization bill into law on April 13th.

“The enactment of the Small Business Innovation and Economic Security Act will restart America’s small business innovation engine... (1/3)

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"... after six months of being stalled. For more than forty years, the SBIR and STTR programs have supported small business innovation and enhanced U.S. competitiveness across the energy, defense, healthcare, and other technology sectors."

-Lynn Abramson, CEBN President (2/3)

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Georgia continues adding to its clean energy portfolio with the state’s latest battery energy storage project. Read more about this development from @SolarPowerWorld.

https://t.co/sSoJ1cKEOQ

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Additionally, we championed for cleantech R&D funding and strong spending guardrails in FY27.

Check out highlights from the March fly-in, including key takeaways and participating companies, in our latest blog post: https://t.co/ZbufUPYqei

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Last month, ten small business leaders from across the country joined CEBN on Capitol Hill for 25 meetings to advocate for federal investment in energy innovation. They shared how DOE programs like SBIR support small businesses and strengthen America’s clean energy economy.

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Last month, our parent organization, @BCSECleanEnergy, released the 2026 Sustainable Energy in America Factbook produced in partnership with @BloombergNEF . Findings provide annual data and insights on U.S. market energy trends. Download the report here: https://t.co/GnPHYMonNA

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We look forward to working with SBIR implementing offices to educate entrepreneurs as new rules for these programs are administered.” (3/3)

https://t.co/Flf6iIcIfk

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Earlier today, the House passed legislation that would reauthorize SBIR & STTR through FY 2031. See a statement from CEBN President Lynn Abramson:

“CEBN applauds Congress for reauthorizing the SBIR and STTR programs for five years. We appreciate the bicameral...

(1/3)

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bipartisan effort to work through negotiations to reinstate these programs. SBIR and STTR represent the backbone of America’s R&D ecosystem, and this reauthorization is critical to ensuring cutting edge technologies in cleantech and beyond are made here at home in the U.S. (2/3)

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and get it over the finish line. Restarting these vital programs will support the creation of new businesses and jobs, attract private-sector investment, and promote American competitiveness in technology innovation." (3/3)

See our full statement here: https://t.co/EuHd6taqsE

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Last week the Senate passed the Small Business Innovation and Economic Security Act—legislation that would reauthorize SBIR/STTR through FY 2031. See a statement from CEBN President Lynn Abramson below (1/3):

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“For over 40 years, the SBIR and STTR programs have served as America’s innovation engine, enabling small businesses to develop and commercialize new technologies. We thank the Small Business Committee for its tireless efforts to develop this compromise for reauthorization (2/3)