This new air conditioning unit designed by National Renewable Energy Laboratory researchers is an alternative to current window-mounted options. It's quieter, more energy efficient, and doesn't block the window. The researchers developing this new technology participated in DOE's Lab-Corps program and learned from conversations with potential industry partners how they could get their technology to market.
Guiding Principles
Tech-to-Market is committed to the following guiding principles that shape and inform our activities:
1. We leverage two of America's greatest competitive strengths—innovation and entrepreneurship—to maintain American competitiveness and drive economic growth.
2. We do not pick winners and losers. Rather than supporting specific types of energy technologies, we focus on high leverage opportunities to address common cross-cutting barriers to economic impact.
3. By focusing on private sector collaboration at each stage—during ideation, execution, evaluation, and hand-off—we ensure our efforts are delivering value and impact.
4. We implement rigorous impact evaluations of each pilot activity, and hold true to the results. Programs must prove successful in order to continue, and must demonstrate a viable pathway to exit.