ARPA-E Announces $125M Challenge for Disruptive Energy Technologies

The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced that it will commit up to $125 million for its 2015 OPEN competition to Support R&D projects on potentially disruptive new energy technologies. Applications should be able to address how the proposed technology will be able to make a significant impact in one of the three mission areas of ARPA-E – to reduce imported energy, to reduce energy-related emissions, and to improve energy efficiency. Via the 2015 OPEN program, DOE intends to make up to 50 awards across the full spectrum of energy applications. Concept papers are due February 27, 2015, with the full application due date yet to be determined. Read the announcement…

The 2015 solicitation is the third round of funding for ARPA-E’s OPEN competition. The previous two OPEN solicitations were conducted at the inception of the agency in 2009 and again in 2012.  The program was established to provide ARPA-E with a mechanism to fund innovative energy R&D that falls outside of the topics of the focused technology programs or that develop after focused solicitations have closed. It also is an open solicitation allowing applications from all domestic sources including academia and industry.

SSTI Members Were Alerted to Over 1,500 Funding Opportunities in 2015
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