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Updated July 2016: Learn where Dr. James Klausner is now as he looks back on his experiences at ARPA-E as a Program Director What was the most interesting or challenging part of program development or management? Serving as an ARPA-E Program Director is a privilege, and program development provides an opportunity to do an in-depth study around a challenging energy problem and identify critical technology gaps that inhibit solutions. The most interesting part of program development at ARPA-E, is reaching out to science and technology experts across the country to find creative ideas to overcome technology gaps.
September 4, 2013
ARPA-E sat down with Pete McGrail, Laboratory Fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), to talk about PNNL’s adsorption chiller work and how a more efficient air conditioner that could help the U.S. military cut its fuel costs.
ARPA-E sat down with Eric McFarland, CEO of Urban Electric Power (UEP), to discuss the challenges of leading a start-up company, the company’s partnership with ARPA-E, and its participation in New York Energy Week.
We recently sat down with Dr. Eric Shrader, the principal investigator of PARC’s battery co-extrusion project, to talk innovation, reforming the electric vehicle (EV) industry, and changing the way we think about batteries.
The 2013 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit concluded Wednesday with a final networking session in the Technology Showcase, providing a final opportunity for exhibitors and attendees to find future contributors and collaborators for research and build relationships with entrepreneurs and investors for future stages of funding.
In 2010, the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded Fluidic $3 million to develop a low-cost, high-power module for rechargeable Zinc-air batteries. If successful, Fluidic’s technology would allow for versatile, dependable grid-scale storage of renewable energy.
Energy crops are plants that can be used to make biofuels. The ideal crop can be grown quickly and densely with as little input as possible from farmers on land that’s otherwise unusable by agrarians. Once harvested, these energy crops can be converted into biofuel through various processes.
A program funded by the Department of Defense (DoD) in partnership with the Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) is advancing the development of technologies that will help keep troops cool, while reducing the military’s current need for fuel.