Impact Sheet
INNOVATIVE DRILLING TECHNOLOGY UPDATED: MAY 17, 2016PROJECT TITLE: Low-Contact Drilling Technology to Enable Economical Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS) WellsPROGRAM: OPEN 2009AWARD: $9,141,030PROJECT TEAM: Foro Energy (Lead)PROJECT TERM: January 2010 – September 2013PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR (PI): Dr. Joel Moxley

Impact Sheet
CAPTURING SOLAR ENERGY EFFICIENTLY UPDATED: APRIL 26, 2016 PROJECT TITLE: Scalable Submodule Power Conversion for Utility-Scale Photovoltaics PROGRAM: Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology (Solar ADEPT) AWARD: $1,749,408 PROJECT TEAM: SolarBridge Technologies (Lead); University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign PROJECT TERM: February 2012 to June 2015

Impact Sheet
LAUNCHING ENERGY KITES PROJECT TITLE: Airborne Wind Turbine (Energy Kite)PROGRAM: OPEN 2009AWARD: $6,000,000PROJECT TEAM: Makani PowerPROJECT TERM: September 2010 – May 2013

Video: Awardee Profile
ARPA-E’s Technology-to-Market Advisors work closely with each ARPA-E project team to develop and execute a commercialization strategy. ARPA-E requires our teams to focus on their commercial path forward, because we understand that to have an impact on our energy mission, technologies must have a viable path into the marketplace. ARPA-E Senior Commercialization Advisor Dr. John Tuttle discusses what this Tech-to-Market guidance in practice looks like with reference to two project teams.

Video: Awardee Profile
Many of ARPA-E’s technology programs seek to break down silos and build new technological communities around a specific energy challenge. In this video, ARPA-E’s Deputy Director for Technology Eric Rohlfing, discusses how the Full-Spectrum Optimized Conversion and Utilization of Sunlight (FOCUS) program is bringing together the photovoltaic (PV) and concentrated solar power (CSP) communities to develop hybrid solar energy systems.

Press Releases
The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) today announced $60 million in funding for 23 groundbreaking new projects aimed at creating highly efficient and scalable dry-cooling technologies for thermoelectric power plants and developing prototype technologies to explore new pathways for fusion power.