Press Releases
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) today announced $18 million for 9 projects to enable the growth of hydrogen as a replacement for fossil fuels.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) today announced $9.9 million for 7 projects to support the Biden-Harris Administration’s efforts to strengthen domestic supply chains and ensure America leads the world in the emerging clean energy economy.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $41 million for 14 projects to develop technologies, Renewables-to-Liquids (RtL), for harnessing renewable energy sources like wind and solar to produce liquids for sustainable fuels or chemicals that can be transported and stored as easily as carbon-intensive liquids like gasoline or oil. Renewable energy resources are often not co-located with the current U.S. power grid, and by enabling the transportation of sustainable fuels the selected projects can reduce interconnection barriers while helping cut emissions from hard to decarbonize industrial sectors.
Blog Posts
As the demand for critical minerals rises, it has become increasingly important to the United States to secure domestic critical materials supply chains to bolster our national security and ensure America leads the world in the emerging clean energy economy. To meet this demand, ARPA-E has investigated innovative, novel ways to acquire critical minerals domestically, such as phytomining.
This spring, ARPA-E awardee University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) set out to study critical minerals accumulating in wild seaweed in a remote corner of Alaska.
The demand for critical minerals required to decarbonize energy technologies is outpacing supply, inspiring new research into novel ways to acquire valuable minerals. One transformative research area is using the natural hyperaccumulating ability of seaweed to naturally concentrate rare earth elements from seawater.