Open Call for Transformational Energy Technologies

Staff reports

Washington, D.C. – The Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) issued a $150-million funding opportunity open to all transformational energy technologies to support the Obama Administration’s all-of-the-above approach to solving our nation’s most pressing energy challenges.

This Open Funding Opportunity Announcement is a call to our country’s brightest scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs to propose early-stage research projects that would not otherwise be able to attract private investment, but could lead to breakthrough energy technologies.

More details are available at https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov. Individual awards under the Open FOA will range between $250,000 and $10 million.

“Innovation is our nation’s sweet spot, and it is critically
important that we look at every possible energy solution in order to
ensure America’s future prosperity and security,” said ARPA-E Director
Dr. Arun Majumdar.

This Open Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA) joins ARPA-E’s other recently issued FOA – Methane Opportunities
for Vehicular Energy (MOVE) – which will make $30 million available to
find ways to harness our abundant supplies of domestic natural gas for
vehicles.

President Obama launched the Energy Department’s
Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy in 2009 to seek out
transformational, breakthrough technologies that are too risky for
private sector investment but have the potential to translate science
into quantum leaps in energy technology, establish a foundation for
entirely new industries, and in the future have large commercial impact.

ARPA-E has funded a total of more than 180 projects, for $521.7 million in awards across 12 program areas.