Press Releases

U.S. Department of Energy Announces $10 Million to Explore Using Plants to Extract Critical Materials from Soil to Support Domestic Supply Chain

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced up to $10 million in funding to explore nickel extraction from soil using plants—a process known as phytomining—to establish a competitive domestic supply chain, supplement conventional mining methods, and reduce nickel imports.


ARPA-E Announces First Tranche of Main Stage Speakers for 2024 Energy Innovation Summit

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm, Jonathan Scott of Scott Brothers Global, and ARPA-E Director Evelyn N. Wang as Main Stage speakers at the 2024 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit.


U.S. Department of Energy Announces $15 Million for 12 Projects Developing High-Energy Storage Solutions to Electrify Domestic Aircraft, Railroads & Ships

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $15 million for 12 projects across 11 states to advance next-generation, high-energy storage solutions to help accelerate the electrification of the aviation, railroad, and maritime transportation sectors.


 

Blog Posts

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Six ARPA-E Awardees Among Teams Set to Receive up to $775m in Funding as Part of Historic DOE Industrial Decarbonization Effort

On March 25, 2024, OCED announced a historic $6 billion in funding for 33 projects across more than 20 states aimed at industrial decarbonization. Six of the selected teams — Antora, Brimstone, Electrified Thermal Solutions, LanzaTech, Sublime Systems, and Via Separations — have previously received ARPA-E early-stage R&D funding.


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ARPA-E Investor Update Vol. 20: Tierra Biosciences' Protein Synthesis Platform

On March 12, 2024, Tierra Biosciences announced they raised $11.4 million in a Series A funding round led by Material Impact, along with Prosus Ventures, In-Q-Tel, Hillspire, Freeflow Ventures, Creative Ventures, and Social Capital. Tierra has developed a protein platform designed to produce custom purified proteins at multiple scales using their high-throughput, cell-free expression technology and advanced AI models.


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ARPA-E Investor Update Vol. 19: AtmosZero's Boiler 2.0

On February 20th, 2024, ARPA-E awardee AtmosZero announced a $21M Series A financing round led by a transatlantic team of investors at the US-based Engine Ventures and European firm 2150, and supported by Constellation Technology Ventures. This Series A funding round will allow the AtmosZero team to advance their global mission to decarbonize industrial steam production, moving their flagship Boiler 2.0 device from a proof-of-concept to a commercial product ready for customers.