The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy plans to award up to $20M for innovation projects that could help accelerate the integration of machine learning and artificial intelligence tools into energy technology and product design processes.
Read More »DOE Allocates $98M for 40 Energy Tech Dev’t Projects
The Energy Department has announced 40 projects that will share up to $98M in total funds to build technology platforms that would update the U.S. energy system. DOE said Thursday the funding support is part of the OPEN 2018 program managed by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy. Companies, universities and …
Read More »Energy Department Launches Electrical Grid Modernization Competition; Sec. Rick Perry Quoted
The Energy Department has started administering a competition that gathers developers to accelerate the distribution of power across the American electricity grid. In the first phase of the Grid Optimization Competition, participants are tasked to develop and assess their own algorithms on mock power system models in an effort to …
Read More »ARPA-E Unveils $100M Energy Tech R&D Funding Opportunity for 2018
The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy has started to accept applications for up to $100 million in grant funds to research and develop energy technology platforms. ARPA-E’s OPEN 2018 funding opportunity will support innovators who aim to help transform U.S. energy infrastructure with technology, the Energy Department said Wednesday. “We are asking American …
Read More »Energy Department Announces Additional $20 Million in Research Awards
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced Thursday that it 10 previously selected Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awardees will receive a total of $20 million, honoring additional commitments. This marks the end of the road for the DOE’s approval process of the ARPA-E's Next-Generation Energy Technologies for Connected and …
Read More »DOE to Fund 14 Window Coating Devt Projects Through SHIELD Program
The Energy Department has awarded $31 million in total funds to support 14 window coating and windowpane development projects as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy's Single-Pane Highly Insulating Efficient Lucid Design program. DOE said Monday ARPA-E's SHIELD program seeks to retrofit single-pane windows through the development of novel window coatings …
Read More »ARPA-E Funds Xerox PARC Mobile App Project for Energy-Saving Travel
PARC has received funds from the Energy Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy to develop a mobile application model that will cater to individual travelers and drive energy savings in transportation. Under ARPA-E’s Traveler Response Architecture using Novel Signaling for Network Efficiency in Transportation program, the Xerox-owned company said Tuesday it will partner with …
Read More »Xerox PARC to Build Micro-PV Cell Printer for DOE’s ARPA-E
PARC, a Xerox company, will develop a prototype micro-photovoltaic cell printer for the Energy Department as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy‘s Micro-scale Optimized Solar-cell Arrays with Integrated Concentration program. Xerox said Wednesday the program aims to facilitate the high-volume, economical production of micro-PV cell arrays. The company added that PARC will utilize digital xerographic assembly …
Read More »Energy Dept Awards PARC New Metal Sorting Tech Development Funds
Xerox subsidiary PARC has secured additional funds from the U.S. Energy Department to further develop a technology for processing and recycling scrap aluminum materials. PARC is developing an aluminum alloy detection system through the Modern Electro/Thermochemical Advancements for Light-metal Systems Program, run by DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, Xerox said …
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