[CCoE Notice] ARPA-E Funding

[Fritz Claydon]

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*From:* News from ARPA-E [mailto:arpa-e-announcement at hq.doe.gov]
*Sent:* Wednesday, April 20, 2011 1:08 PM
*To:* gupton at UH.EDU
*Subject:* April 20, 2011 Newsletter



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Jonathan Burbaum’s focus at ARPA-E is in advanced biotechnology applications
for biofuels and the production of biologically-based chemical feedstocks.
He is the Program Director for the PETRO program.

Prior to joining ARPA-E, Burbaum was a San Diego-based biotechnology
consultant focusing on realizing value from novel technologies, products,
and commercial strategies in the life sciences. He is the founder of two
companies, Azure Therapeutics and Gnosys Consulting, and has worked
extensively for corporate, venture, and government clients.

Before entering consulting, he played seminal roles with two venture-backed
startup companies, Pharmacopeia (from inception, through IPO and commercial
launch) and ActivX Biosciences (now a division of Kyorin Pharmaceuticals).
He began his industrial career at the Merck Research Laboratories in Rahway,
N.J. in 1991.

Burbaum received his B.S. in Chemistry from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
in 1981, and his Ph. D. from Harvard University - where he worked for Jeremy
R. Knowles on the energetics of enzymatic catalysis - in 1988. From 1988 to
1991, Burbaum conducted post-doctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology with Paul Schimmel, focusing on protein structure, function and
folding. He received his M.B.A. from the Rady School of Management at the
University of California, San Diego in 2009.

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SECRETARY CHU ANNOUNCES $130 MILLION FOR ARPA-E’S 4TH ROUND OF FUNDING

*ARPA-E will create five new program areas focusing on rare earth
alternatives, breakthrough biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls and
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[image: Steven Chu]On Wednesday, April 20th, 2011 U.S. Secretary of Energy
Steven Chu announced $130 million for the Advanced Research Projects
Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to develop five new program areas that could catalyze
critical breakthrough technologies to secure America’s energy future.
Today’s announcement creates program areas that will fund innovative
projects seeking to discover rare earth alternatives and find advancements
in biofuels, thermal storage, the electric grid and solar power electronics.
The success of these program areas could reduce our country’s dependence of
foreign oil, decrease the cost of clean electricity and develop a
sustainable infrastructure for future generations of Americans.

The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy
(ARPA-E) will begin reviewing innovative proposals to develop their
breakthrough technologies in the following new program areas:

*For more information and to apply click*
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1.     *Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies for Energy (REACT)*
Rare earths are naturally-occurring minerals with unique magnetic properties
that are used in many emerging energy technologies. As demand for these
technologies continues to increase, rare earths are rapidly becoming more
expensive due to limited global supply. ARPA-E seeks to fund early-stage
technology alternatives that reduce or eliminate the dependence on rare
earth materials by developing substitutes in two key areas: electric vehicle
motors and wind generators.

2.     *Plants Engineered To Replace Oil (PETRO)*
PETRO aims to create plants that capture more energy from sunlight and
convert that energy directly into fuels. ARPA-E seeks to fund technologies
that optimize the biochemical processes of energy capture and conversion to
develop robust, farm-ready crops that deliver more energy per acre with less
processing prior to the pump. If successful, PETRO will create biofuels for
half their current cost, making them cost-competitive with fuels from oil.

3.     *High Energy Advanced Storage (HEATS)*
ARPA-E seeks to develop revolutionary cost-effective thermal energy storage
technologies in three focus areas: 1) high temperature storage systems to
deliver solar electricity more efficiently around the clock and allow
nuclear and fossil baseload resources the flexibility to meet peak demand,
2) fuel produced from the sun’s heat, and 3) HVAC systems that use thermal
storage to improve the driving range of electric vehicles by up to 40
percent.

4.     *Green Electricity Network Integration (GENI)*
ARPA-E seeks to fund innovative control software and high-voltage hardware
to reliably control the grid, specifically: 1) controls able to manage 10
times more sporadically available wind and solar electricity than currently
on the grid, and 2) resilient power flow control hardware – or the energy
equivalent of an internet router – to enable significantly more electricity
through the existing network of transmission lines.

5.     *Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology (Solar ADEPT)*
The Solar ADEPT program is part of the DOE SunShot Initiative, which
leverages the unique strengths across the Department to reduce the total
cost of utility-scale solar systems by 75 percent by the end of the decade.
Under the Solar ADEPT program, ARPA-E is focused on integrating advanced
power electronics into solar panels and solar farms to extract and deliver
energy more efficiently. This program aims to invest in key advances in
magnetics, semiconductor switches, and charge storage, which could reduce
power conversion costs by up to 50 percent for utilities and 80 percent for
homeowners.
ARPA-E Director Arun Majumdar Testifies on The Hill

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Dr. Arun Majumdar, Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency –
Energy (ARPA-E), testified on March 31, 2011 before the House Appropriations
Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, regarding the Agency's Fiscal
Year 2012 budget request of $650 million. Dr. Majumdar reiterated the
important role agencies like ARPA-E play in solving the national, economic
and environmental security issues currently facing the U.S. Dr. Majumdar
went on to reiterate that the funding for ARPA-E in the President’s FY2012
budget would help ARPA-E achieve its primary goal, to “catalyze energy
breakthroughs with speed and efficiency to secure America’s future”.

Just weeks after his testimony, ARPA-E received $180 million from the FY2011
budget, which had been delayed under a Continuing Resolution. Receiving the
FY2011 budget enabled ARPA-E to issue its 4th round of funding for five new
program areas, in addition its seven existing programs.

Though only two years old, ARPA-E and its projects are already showing signs
of success. The agency recently announced that several projects have
received follow on funding of approximately $250 million, indications that
the business community is eager to invest in truly innovative energy
solutions. In the last two months, ARPA-E also formed four strategic
partnerships with the Department of Defense, the Qatar Science and
Technology Park (QSTP), and Duke Energy and the Electric Power Research
Institute (EPRI) to collaborate on innovative technology solutions.

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Fritz Claydon Ph.D.
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Dean of Administration and Research
University of Houston
Cullen College of Engineering
713.743.4204
fclaydon at uh.edu

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