Innovation for impact
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Innovation for impact
to enable the future energy system that we need. The goal of ARPA-E is moving from innovative results of basic R&D to https://arpa-e.energy.gov social impact. ARPA-E was established with three As materials scientists, we all understand the benefits that R&D provides as a driver of clear requirements. The first is to be an improved quality of life and economic benefits. We also understand the long and difficult agent of change: to address innovation, to pathway from innovation to social benefit. The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy find new, possibly astounding advances in (ARPA-E) was established specifically to accelerate that process for the energy sector. science and engineering, and to advance those toward applications in the energy RPA-E is a young agency, founded in rapid growth in the use of oil as a fuel sector. The second is to focus those bene2007 as a result of the “Rising with the advent of low-cost automobiles fits on energy efficiency, reducing energy Above the Gathering Storm” report1 driving demand, followed by increasing emissions and reducing dependence on (which emphasized that a comprehenuse of natural gas for heat and power energy imports. The third is to promote sive and coordinated effort is needed generation. In the last 50 years, there US energy and economic security and to to bolster US competitiveness through has been an uptake of non-fossil energy sustain US technological leadership in support for research and development sources: nuclear power, hydropower, advanced energy technologies. As the [R&D] in science and technology), and wind, solar, and continuing use of bioagency plans its research programs, it received its first funding in 2009. While mass now account for nearly 20% of US focuses on these requirements with the the agency has only been in operation energy consumption. Equally striking mantra, “If it works, will it matter?” for a little more than seven years, it has is the change in the amount of energy The program structure that ARPA-E big aspirations; its motto is “changing used annually—nearly 50 times as much developed to meet its requirements is what’s possible,” and its assigned mistoday as was used in 1850. Changes in illustrated in the figure and shows all of sion space spans the entire energy sector. the energy sector require decades of time the focused programs that ARPA-E has To put ARPA-E’s mission in context, because it is so large and so embedded supported. Each of the circles represents consider the evolution of US energy use in every aspect of the economy. a three-year, roughly USD$30 million over the past 150 years. In the 1850s, the Today we face pressing needs to research program (www.arpa-e.energy. United States was an agrarian society, improve US energy and economic and gov/?q=program-listing) that includes generating virtually all of its energy by environmental security, and to do so in about 10 project teams. Every year, about burning biomass, mostly wood. Shortly the context of human-induced climate one-third of the progra
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