ARPA-E was established to bring a freshness, excitement, and sense of mission to energy research, and to attract many of the U.S.'s best and brightest minds�those of experienced scientists and engineers, and, especially, those of students and young researchers, including entrepreneurs and industry professionals. ARPA-E has a focus on creative 'out-of-the-box' transformational energy research that industry by itself does not support, primarily due to its risk profile, but where success would provide tangible, near-term benefits for the nation. ARPA-E is flat, nimble, and sparse, capable of executing those projects whose promise remains real, while phasing out programs that do not prove to be as promising as anticipated and creates a new tool to bridge the gap between basic energy research and development/industrial innovation. In this talk, I will focus on various aspects of ARPA-E's programs and visions.

Role of ARPA-E in revolutionizing energy research

243rd National Meeting (2012)

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