Emerging Ideas Workshops
Monday, March 26, 2012 - Friday, March 30, 2012
ARPA-E will host several events in its public workshop series – “Emerging Ideas Workshops,” during March 26-30, 2012 in Washington, DC and Arlington, VA.
These workshops will bring together thought leaders from distinct science, engineering, and commercial communities to collectively develop new ideas and identify key needs and potentially transformational technological approaches. ARPA-E is exploring new technology areas that may merit the creation of a full program(s) at some point in the futu...
Transportation Behavior and New Technologies Workshop
Friday, March 16, 2012
ARPA-E will host an event in its public workshop series – “Transportation Behavior and New Technologies,” on Friday, March 16, 2012, in Berkeley, CA.
This workshop will focus on new transportation technologies such as alternative fuels and advanced power train vehicles that have the potential to achieve ARPA-E mission areas of reducing foreign imports and cutting greenhouse gas emissions.Acceptance and use of new technologies historically has been difficult to encourage outside of "early adopter...
Natural Gas Vehicle Technologies Workshop
Thursday, January 26, 2012
ARPA-E will host an event in its public workshop series – “Natural Gas Vehicle Technologies,” on Thursday, January 26, 2012, in Houston, TX.
This workshop will bring together thought leaders from distinct science, engineering, and commercial communities to collectively develop new ideas and identify key needs and potentially transformational technological approaches for enabling the direct use of natural gas in the transportation sector. The focus will be identifying novel technology learn...
Natural Gas Conversion Technologies
Friday, January 13, 2012
ARPA-E held a workshop on the topic of “Natural Gas Conversion Technologies” on January 13, 2012, in Houston, TX.
The workshop focused on technologies that could convert natural gas into liquid fuels and chemicals and enable increased use of domestic natural gas and reduced petroleum imports. Special attention was directed towards identifying low-cost strategies to apply potentially transformational approaches to natural gas conversion that could enable the more wide-spread use of domestic natur...
Tool Development for Transformational Biotechnology Advances
Thursday, October 06, 2011 - Friday, October 07, 2011
ARPA-E hosted a workshop “Tool Development for Transformation Biotechnology Advances,” on October 6-7, 2011 in Arlington, VA.
The workshop brought together thought leaders from distinct science and engineering communities to develop new ideas and identify key needs and potentially transformational R&D approaches in plant biotechnology and synthetic biology to develop products in the biofuel and renewable products market. These technologies should allow rapid improvements in cro...
Small-Scale Distributed Generation
Wednesday, June 01, 2011 - Thursday, June 02, 2011
ARPA-E recently announced an upcoming event in its series of public workshops – Small-Scale Distributed Generation - which took place on June 1-2, 2011 in Alexandria, Va. This workshop will address the challenges and opportunities associated with developing low-cost electrical generator sets (gensets) with very high energy-conversion efficiency. Gensets can be fuel-based-only or a hybrid of renewables with fuel firming.The kW-electric output ranges of interest are:
5-10 kWe,
200-500 kWe.
It is...
Hybrid Energy Storage Module
Thursday, May 19, 2011 - Friday, May 20, 2011
On May 19–20, 2011, the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy [ARPA-E] and the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering [ASD(R&E)] held a workshop in Arlington, Va. to explore advanced scientific and technical challenges to the development of a Hybrid Energy Storage Module (HESM). The vision for HESM is to store electrical energy with high energy density, variable charge & discharge rates, and in modular-reconfigurable packages. This capability would...
Power Electronics in Photovoltaic Systems
Tuesday, February 08, 2011 - Wednesday, February 09, 2011
The Department of Energy Announces a Joint ARPA-E/EERE Workshop Addressing Power Electronics in Photovoltaic Systems.
On August 11–12, 2010, the Department of Energy (DOE) held a workshop in Washington, D.C., aimed at identifying approaches to reduce the cost of installed photovoltaic (PV) systems to $1/W by 2017. The workshop attendees included a combination of representatives from the U.S. government, academia, and industry.For the purposes of planning, the $1/W goal has been broken down into...
High Density Thermal Energy Storage
Monday, January 31, 2011
ARPA-E recently held an event in its public workshop series – “High Density Thermal Energy Storage,” on January 31, 2011, in Arlington, Va.
Thermal energy transport and conversion play a very significant role in more than 90% of energy technologies. Approximately two thirds of thermal energy is wasted.Thermal energy storage can significantly reduce this waste and enhance the efficiency of energy delivery and consumption. Applications range from low temperature cold storage to high temperature nu...
Green Electricity Network Integration
Monday, December 13, 2010
ARPA-E hosted an event in its series of public workshops – “Green Electricity Network Integration” on December 13, 2010, in Arlington, Va. This workshop addressed the challenges and opportunities associated with incorporating renewable energy sources into the nation’s power grid. The goal of the workshop was to develop new ideas and identify the most promising R&D pathways to better accommodate the alternatives to traditional electricity generation and the use of plug-in hybrid electric vehi...
Critical Materials Technology
Monday, December 06, 2010
ARPA-E hosted an event in its series of public workshops – “ARPA-E Critical Materials Technology Workshop,” which took place on December 6, 2010, in Arlington, Va. The goal of the workshop was to bring together thought-leaders from across scientific and engineering disciplines to identify potential transformational, early-stage applied research and development approaches to address technical challenges related to potential limited availability of critical materials in the energy sector.The impor...
Applied Biotechnology for Transportation Fuels
Thursday, December 02, 2010 - Friday, December 03, 2010
ARPA-E hosted an event in its public workshop series – “Applied Biotechnology for Transportation Fuels: Meeting Today¹s Energy Needs by Maximizing Photon Capture,” on December 2-3, 2010, in Arlington, Va.
The workshop brought together thought leaders from distinct science and engineering communities to develop new ideas and identify practical approaches toward increasing the efficiency of light collection by biological systems and the conversion of that energy into liquid forms of chemical energ...
2010 CO2 Capture Technology Meeting
Monday, September 13, 2010
The Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (DOE/NETL) hosted the 2010 CO2 Capture Technology Meeting on September 13-17, 2010, at the Sheraton Station Square Hotel in Pittsburgh, PA. The Meeting provided a public forum to present carbon dioxide (CO2) capture technology development status and accomplishments made under NETL's Innovations for Existing Plants, Carbon Sequestration and Demonstration Programs. In addition, ARPA-E Program Director Mark Hartney highlighted the Age...
$1/W Workshop
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
ARPA-E and the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (EERE) Solar Energy Technology Program (SETP) held a photovoltaics workshop on August 10-11, 2010 at the JW Marriott Hotel in Washington, DC. While DOE has a highly-productive photovoltaic (PV) program, we may need a dramatic change to develop products that can compete in large markets without significant subsidies.Experts specifically discussed how to achieve PV facilities priced at $1 per watt, fully-installed.
ARPA-E Innovation Summit Pre-Summit Workshop
Monday, March 01, 2010
Purpose of the Workshop Day:
A one-day, pre-Summit program focusing on helping scientific researchers, technology entrepreneurs, and corporate and venture investors gain strategic insights into ARPA-E’s program directions and other Department of Energy programs. Participants will: (i) be briefed about existing and future program priorities, (ii) learn the key criteria used in evaluating proposals, (iii) meet and ask questions directly of ARPA-E Program Directors, and (iv) gain insights into ene...
Power Technologies Workshop
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Power Technologies
ARPA-E held a workshop on the topic of power technologies on February 9, 2010 in Arlington, Va. The objectives of this workshop were to gain a deeper understanding of those areas and technologies that have the highest potential to meet DOE's goal of developing the technical foundations necessary to improve the utilization of energy in power technologies. The following topical areas were considered:
Photovoltaic Technology: Power electronics requirements for emerging ph...
Energy from Wastewater Workshop
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
ARPA-E held a workshop on the topic of “Energy from Wastewater” on January 27, 2010 in Arlington, Va. The goal of the workshop was to gain a deeper understanding of those areas and technologies that have the highest potential to meet DOE’s goal of developing the technical foundations necessary to achieve net energy output and clean usable water from municipal and industrial wastewaters. ARPA-E sought to target high-risk R&D technologies which have been historically overlooked or are consider...
Advanced Building Energy Technologies Workshop
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
ARPA-E and the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy held a workshop on the topic of advanced building energy technologies on December 15, 2009 in Arlington, Va. The objectives of this workshop were to gain a deeper understanding of those areas and technologies that have the highest potential to meet DOE's goal of developing the technical foundations necessary to enable massive reductions in energy consumption in buildings. The following topical areas were...
Electrical Energy Storage for Vehicles Workshop
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
ARPA-E and the Department of Energy's Office of Vehicle Technologies held a workshop on the topic of energy storage for vehicles on November 3, 2009 in Arlington, Va.
This workshop served as an opportunity for ARPA-E leadership to engage with leading experts to obtain insight on vehicle energy storage technology areas that are ripe for and in strong need of transformational technology development. ARPA-E will use this information to shape the scope and focus of potential future programs in energ...
Carbon Capture and Conversion Workshop
Thursday, October 29, 2009
ARPA-E and the Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory held a workshop on the topic of carbon capture and conversion on October 29, 2009 in Pittsburgh, Pa. The objectives of this workshop were to elicit a deeper understanding of the performance and cost factors that hinder the adoption of technologies for capture of carbon dioxide and conversion to useful commercial products, as well as to identify emerging opportunities/challenges for transformational "over the horizon" new...
Novel Approaches to Direct Solar Fuels Workshop
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
ARPA-E's Direct Solar Fuel Technology workshop addressed the challenges and opportunities associated with Direct Solar Fuel Technologies. The goal of the workshop was to bring together thought-leaders from distinct science communities to collectively develop new ideas and identify the most promising R&D pathways to capture and utilize solar energy for the production of infrastructure-compatible, organic high energy transportable fuels. Specifically, ARPA-E explored the intersection of potent...
Grid Scale Energy Storage Workshop
Sunday, October 04, 2009
ARPA-E and the Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability held a workshop on the topic of grid scale energy storage in Seattle, Washington. The workshop was held in conjunction with the Department of Energy-sponsored Electrical Energy Storage Applications and Technology Conference 2009 (EESAT 2009).
This workshop served as an opportunity for ARPA-E leadership to engage with leading experts to obtain insight on grid scale energy storage technology areas ripe for,...