Find Teaming Partners

ARPA-E is encouraging scientists and engineers from different organizations, disciplines and sectors to form new project teams in advance of a potential funding opportunity around EV energy storage.

ARPA-E Summit Speakers

The 2013 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit will feature keynotes from NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, DuPont CEO Ellen Kullman, businessman T. Boone Pickens, and many other notable energy leaders.

ARPA-E Awards $130 Million to 66 Transformational Energy Technology Projects

ARPA-E has funded 66 new projects aimed at advancing all types of transformational energy technologies. These projects were funded through OPEN 2012, ARPA-E’s second open call for projects.

ARPA-E Project Profile: OPX Biotechnologies

OPX has succeeded in engineering microbes to use hydrogen and carbon dioxide to make liquid transportation fuel. The company is now researching how to scale to commercially viable quantities.

ARPA-E Project Profile: Envia Systems

Envia Systems has succeeded in doubling the current world record for energy density for a rechargeable lithium-ion battery--an innovation that would cut the cost of an EV battery pack in half.

ARPA-E Project Profile: Cree

Cree’s tiny transistors could turn the massive 8,000 lb. electrical power transformers we’re accustomed to seeing at substations into 100 lb. transformers the size of a suitcase.