Transportation Fuels

CONFORMABLE NATURAL GAS TANKS UPDATED: FEBRUARY 24, 2016 PROJECT TITLE: Fully and Intricately Conformable, Single-Piece, Mass-Manufacturable High-Pressure Gas Storage TanksPROGRAM: MOVEAWARD: $5,000,000PROJECT TEAM: REL, Inc. (Lead)PROJECT TERM: September 2012 – March 2016

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.

ARPA-E’s Transportation Energy Resources from Renewable Agriculture (TERRA) program is bringing together top experts from different disciplines – agriculture, robotics and data analytics – to rethink the production of advanced biofuel crops. ARPA-E Program Director Dr. Joe Cornelius discusses the TERRA program and explains how ARPA-E’s model enables multidisciplinary collaboration among diverse communities.