Pathways to Commercial Liftoff

Liftoff Reports

DOE is working to accelerate clean energy technologies from the lab to market to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.

These Liftoff Reports create a common fact base and a tool for ongoing dialogue with the private sector on the pathways to commercial liftoff.

Overview

Pathways to Commercial Liftoff started in 2022 to:

  • collaborate, coordinate, and align with the private sector on what it will take to commercialize technologies
  • provide a common fact base on key challenges, and
  • establish a live tool and forum to update the fact base and pathways

Liftoff Reports

Each Liftoff report details the key fact base to map out the path to commercial liftoff for a single technology (e.g., advanced nuclear) or suite of technologies targeted at a single sector (e.g., decarbonizing chemicals and refining). Across reports, the components of this fact base include: overview, current state of technologies and markets, pathway to liftoff, challenges to liftoff and potential solutions, and metrics to track progress. 

Topic Brief

Topic Briefs are intended to expand the relevance of Liftoff efforts by addressing topical themes, potentially across multiple Liftoff technologies (e.g., role of advanced grid solutions and virtual power plants in addressing increasing electricity demand) and/or for a specific stakeholder group (e.g., investment community implications of select pathways to Liftoff). 

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Please note that these reports were prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the U.S. Government. Neither the U.S. Government nor any agency thereof, nor any of their employees, makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the U.S. Government or any agency thereof. The views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the U.S. Government or any agency thereof.