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Modification to Previous
Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number:
DE-FOA-0000869
Opportunity Category:
Discretionary
Posted Date:
Feb 15, 2013
Creation Date:
May 03, 2013
Original Closing Date for Applications:
Jun 06, 2013
Current Closing Date for Applications:
Jun 06, 2013
Archive Date:
May 03, 2014
Funding Instrument Type:
Cooperative Agreement
Category of Funding Activity:
Science and Technology and other Research and Development
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards:
17
Estimated Total Program Funding:
$30,000,000
Award Ceiling:
$10,000,000
Award Floor:
$250,000
CFDA Number(s):
81.135
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Advanced Research and Projects Agency - Energy Financial Assistance Program
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:
Yes
Eligible Applicants
Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"
Additional Information on Eligibility:
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Description
The Advanced Research Projects Agency ? Energy (ARPA-E) is
an organization within the Department of Energy, chartered
by Congress in the America COMPETES Act (Pub. L. No. 110-69)to support the creation of transformational energy
technologies and systems through funding and managing
Research and Development (R&D) efforts. Originally
chartered in 2007, the Agency was first funded through the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Since that
time, the Agency has funded over 275 projects totaling more
than $600 million across the entire technology landscape.
The mission of ARPA-E is to identify and fund research to
translate science into breakthrough energy technologies that are too risky for the private sector and that, if
successfully developed, will create the foundation for
entirely new industries. Successful projects will address
at least one of ARPA-E?s two Mission Areas:
1. Enhance the economic and energy security of the
United States through the development of energy technologies that result in:
a. reductions of imports of energy from foreign
sources;
b. reductions of energy-related emissions, including
greenhouse gases; and
c. improvement in the energy efficiency of all economic sectors; and
2. Ensure that the United States maintains a
technological lead in developing and deploying advanced
energy technologies.
This program seeks to fund the development of transformational electrochemical energy storage technologies that will accelerate widespread electric vehicle adoption by dramatically improving their driving range, cost, and reliability. To achieve this long-term objective, this program aims to maximize specific energy and minimize cost of energy storage systems at the vehicle level. Central to this system-level approach is the use of robust design principles for energy storage systems. Robust design is defined as electrochemical energy storage chemistries and/or architectures (i.e. physical designs) that avoid thermal runaway and are immune to catastrophic failure regardless of manufacturing quality or abuse conditions. In addition, this program seeks multifunctional energy storage designs that use these robust storage systems to simultaneously serve other functions on a vehicle (for example, in the frame, body, and/or crumple zone), thus further reducing an energy storage syst
em?s effective weight when normalized to the entire electric vehicle weight. It is anticipated that the core technologies developed under this program will advance all categories of electrified vehicles (hybrid, plug-in hybrid, extended-range electric, and all-electric vehicles); however, the primary focus of this program is on all-electric vehicles, referred to hereafter as electric vehicles (EVs).
Reply to Reviewer Comments are provided as appendices to the FOA. Fillable versions of these templates are available at https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov. Required forms for Full Applications are also available at https://arpa-e-
foa.energy.gov.
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