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<h1><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Leadership</span></h1>
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<p style="font-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://departmentofenergyarpa-e.cmail3.com/t/r/l/jjsill/tjtrhklld/k/" target="_blank"><b>Program Director<br>
Dr. Jonathan Burbaum</b></a> </span></p>
<p style="font-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">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.
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<p style="font-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">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.
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<p style="font-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">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.
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<p style="font-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">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. </span></p>
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<h1><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">SECRETARY CHU ANNOUNCES $130 MILLION FOR ARPA-E’S 4TH ROUND OF FUNDING</span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">ARPA-E will create five new program areas focusing on rare earth alternatives, breakthrough biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls and solar power electronics</span></i><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">
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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.
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<p style="font-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">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:
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</span></span></span><b><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies for Energy (REACT)</span></b><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br>
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.
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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.
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</span></span></span><b><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">High Energy Advanced Storage (HEATS)</span></b><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br>
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.
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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.
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</span></span></span><b><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology (Solar ADEPT)</span></b><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br>
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.
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<h1><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">ARPA-E Director Arun Majumdar Testifies on The Hill</span></h1>
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<p><span style="font-size: 9pt;">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”.
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<p style="font-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">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.
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<p style="font-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">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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