DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY: Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy Could Improve Its Collection of Information from Applications

Abstract

Since first receiving an appropriation in 2009 in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, ARPA-E has awarded $521.7 million to universities, public and private companies, and national laboratories to fund 181 projects that attempt to make transformational rather than incremental advances to a variety of energy technologies, including high-energy batteries and renewable fuels. ARPA-E borrows from the model of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), an agency created within the Department of Defense (DOD) in 1958 to direct and perform advanced research and development projects.2 Award winners must meet cost share requirements, through either in-kind contributions or outside funding sources.3ARPA-E is required by statute to achieve its goals through energy technology projects that, among other things, accelerate transformational technological advances in areas that industry by itself is not likely to undertake because of technical and financial uncertainty.

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 24, 2012
Accession Number
AD1180309

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