SECURE ENERGY FUTURE CENTER
Where energy innovation meets market reality.
The Secure Energy Future Center (SEFC) at VTCRC transforms Virginia’s strategic coastal advantages into one of America’s most effective platforms for energy innovation — where breakthrough research meets market reality to power our secure energy future.
A hub for next-generation energy solutions.
SEFC is a hub for next-generation energy solutions in a highly strategic coastal location, leveraging Hampton Roads’ unique assets to drive innovation, solve complex energy challenges, and enable strategic growth for the region, the Commonwealth, and beyond.
Our Message
Leveraging Virginia’s most valuable assets—world-class university research, unmatched defense and maritime infrastructure, proximity to the famed Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility and NASA, and world-class programming from Virginia Tech and VTCRC—SEFC serves as a market-driven platform for accelerating energy innovation into scalable commercial solutions.
At Tech Center Research Park in Newport News, the Secure Energy Future Center (SEFC) anchors this mission — integrating Virginia Tech research with state and national entities to ignite growth across key industrial sectors, especially energy.
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This project was funded in part by GO Virginia, a state-funded initiative administered by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) that strengthens and diversifies Virginia’s economy and fosters the creation of higher wage jobs in strategic industries.
SEFC is headquartered at Tech Center Research Park, a Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center location focused on igniting the growth of key industrial sectors, especially energy.
Our Objectives
What
An innovation hub for next-generation energy solutions, leveraging the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center to solve complex problems and enable strategic regional growth.
Why
SEFC aims to transform strategic coastal advantages into a highly effective market-driven platform for accelerating energy innovation into commercial solutions to help build a secure energy future.
Impact
Position Hampton Roads as a living laboratory for energy innovation and establish a pipeline of investable ideas that can bring tangible economic impact to Hampton Roads.
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