Other Transactions at the Department of Energy: A Practitioners’ Perspective
Other Transactions offer real flexibility for the right projects, but realizing that potential requires deliberate choices about when to use OT, how to build institutional capacity around it, and how to balance flexibility with the consistency that enables efficient execution. This report, produced with support from Arnold Ventures, draws on our collective experience designing and running DOE programs across grants, cooperative agreements, prizes, and OT to offer a practitioner's framework: project archetypes matched to distinct OT approaches, analysis of policy questions that persist regardless of mechanism, and a focused strategy for building capability. We offer these as a contribution to a broader conversation, and we welcome engagement from anyone working to strengthen how DOE deploys its tools.
