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Scientific Panel Concludes ARPA-E Is Working. Will It Matter?
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608097/scientific-panel-concludes-arpa-e-is-working-will-it-matter/[font face=Serif][font size=5]Scientific Panel Concludes ARPA-E Is Working. Will It Matter?[/font]
[font size=4]As the White House aims to eliminate the moonshot energy research program, a two-year analysis from the National Academies finds it’s on track to achieve its aims.[/font]
by James Temple | June 13, 2017
[font size=3]After two years of analysis, the National Academies has concluded the Department of Energy’s moonshot clean-energy research program is on track to accomplish what it was established to do and should remain focused on supporting potentially breakthrough technologies.
The 238-page assessment of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy from the respected scientific institution, released Tuesday, follows years of attacks by Republican lawmakers, and the Trump administration’s recent calls for its elimination (see “Will ARPA-E Survive Trump’s Looming Budget Cuts?”).
As of last October, ARPA-E had invested more than $1 billion in more than 500 projects, across a variety of areas including carbon capture, biofuels, grid storage, and batteries for electric cars. Among the signs of success highlighted by the congressionally mandated report: 25 percent of the teams raised additional funding, about half published their research in peer-reviewed journals, and around 13 percent of the projects earned patents.
ARPA-E was created under President George W. Bush but first funded through President Barack Obama’s 2009 stimulus package. Its multipronged missions include enhancing the United States’ economic and energy security, ensuring the nation’s technological lead in the space, and “accelerating transformational technological advances” that private industry isn’t likely to undertake on its own.
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[font size=4]As the White House aims to eliminate the moonshot energy research program, a two-year analysis from the National Academies finds it’s on track to achieve its aims.[/font]
by James Temple | June 13, 2017
[font size=3]After two years of analysis, the National Academies has concluded the Department of Energy’s moonshot clean-energy research program is on track to accomplish what it was established to do and should remain focused on supporting potentially breakthrough technologies.
The 238-page assessment of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy from the respected scientific institution, released Tuesday, follows years of attacks by Republican lawmakers, and the Trump administration’s recent calls for its elimination (see “Will ARPA-E Survive Trump’s Looming Budget Cuts?”).
As of last October, ARPA-E had invested more than $1 billion in more than 500 projects, across a variety of areas including carbon capture, biofuels, grid storage, and batteries for electric cars. Among the signs of success highlighted by the congressionally mandated report: 25 percent of the teams raised additional funding, about half published their research in peer-reviewed journals, and around 13 percent of the projects earned patents.
ARPA-E was created under President George W. Bush but first funded through President Barack Obama’s 2009 stimulus package. Its multipronged missions include enhancing the United States’ economic and energy security, ensuring the nation’s technological lead in the space, and “accelerating transformational technological advances” that private industry isn’t likely to undertake on its own.
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