Former DOE Secretary Steven Chu, 3/1/11 at ARPA-E Innovation Summit (Photo by DOE PHOTO/Ken Shipp)
The U.S. Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) this week announced that 17 projects it has helped jump-start have “demonstrated major technical successes and shown significant market engagement” in the past 4 years.
Putting a dollar figure on that, the 17 projects “have attracted over $450 million in private sector follow-on funding” (after their initial $70 million or so from ARPA-E). In addition, 12 ARPA-E projects have gone on to become companies, and over 10 have received funding from other government agencies for later stages of their development.
From clean transport to wind power to grid storage, the ARPA-E winners are looking to advance key technologies of various cleantech sectors. Here are a few lists of the projects, recently put together by the DOE:
Selected ARPA-E projects demonstrating market engagement as of February 26, 2013
Private Sector Investment
- Agrivida – Engineering Enzymes in Energy Crops (Open 2009)
- OPX Biotechnologies – Engineering Bacteria for Efficient Fuel Production (Electrofuels)
- Sion Power Corporation — Lithium-Sulfur Batteries (BEEST)
- Fluidic Energy Inc. — High-Power Zinc-Air Energy Storage (GRIDS)
- AutoGrid, Inc. — Integration of Renewables Via Demand Management (GENI)
- QM Power — Efficient, High-torque Electric Vehicle Motor (REACT)
- Phononic Devices — Improved Thermoelectric Devices (Open 2009)
- Primus Power — Advanced Flow Battery Electrodes (GRIDS)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Electroville: Grid-Scale Batteries (Open 2009)
- Stanford University — The All-Electron Battery: a quantum leap forward in energy storage (BEEST)
- Transphorm — Transistors for Electric Motor Drives (ADEPT)
- 1366 Technologies — Cost-Effective Silicon Wafers for Solar Cells (Open 2009)
- Envia Systems — Long-Range Electric Vehicle Batteries (Open 2009)
- FloDesign Wind Turbine Corp. — Mixer-Ejector Wind Turbine (Open 2009)
- Sun Catalytix — Energy from Water and Sunlight (Open 2009)
- General Compression — Fuel-Free Compressed-Air Energy Storage (GRIDS)
- 24M Technologies — Semi-solid Flowable Battery Electrodes (BEEST)
New Company Formation
- CUNY Energy Institute — Flow-Assisted Alkaline Battery (GRIDS)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Electroville: Grid-Scale Batteries (Open 2009)
- 24M Technologies – Semi-solid Flowable Battery Electrodes (BEEST)
- University of Florida – Solar Thermochemical Fuel Production (HEATS)
- Texas A&M University – Stimuli-Responsive Metal Organic Frameworks (IMPACCT)
- University of Maryland – Elastic Metal Alloy Refrigerants (BEETIT)
- Alveo Energy – Open Framework Electrode Batteries for Cost-Effective Energy Storage (Open 2012)
- Energy Storage Systems – Iron Flow Battery (SBIR/STTR)
- Xilectric, Inc – Reinvention of the Edison Battery (SBIR/STTR)
- Sila Nanotechnologies, Inc. – Doubling the Energy Density of Lithium-ion Batteries for Transportation (SBIR/STTR)
- University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) – Liquid Fuel from Renewable Electricity and Bacteria (Electrofuels)
- University of Notre Dame – Phase-Changing Ionic Liquids (IMPACCT)
Government Partnerships
- Polyplus Battery Company – Rechargeable Lithium-Air Batteries (BEEST)
- DAIS Analytic Corporation — Dehumidifying Air for Cooling & Refrigeration (BEETIT)
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory — High-efficiency Adsorption Chillers (BEETIT)
- ADMA Products — Membrane Dehumidifier (BEETIT)
- Georgia Tech Research Corporation — Innovative Miniaturized Heat Pumps for Buildings (BEETIT)
- Infinia Corporation — High-Efficiency Stirling Air Conditioner (BEETIT)
- Sion Power Company — Lithium-Sulfur Batteries (BEEST)
- ABB Inc. — Magnetic Energy Storage System (GRIDS)
- Primus Power — Advanced Flow Battery Electrodes (GRIDS)
- Alliant Techsystems – Supersonic Technology for CO2 Capture (IMPACCT)
ARPA-E’s 4th annual Energy Innovation Summit was this week, hence the summary of what has been accomplished to date.
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