{"id":379771,"date":"2010-03-02T10:14:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T15:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/?p=6699"},"modified":"2010-03-02T10:14:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T15:14:05","slug":"energy-secretary-steven-chu-announces-100m-for-%e2%80%9cinnovative%e2%80%9d-energy-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/379771","title":{"rendered":"Energy Secretary Steven Chu Announces $100M For  \u201cInnovative\u201d Energy Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/cleantech.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Cleantech\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/funding.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Funding\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/policy.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Policy\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6702\" title=\"DOE logo\" src=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"57\" \/><\/a>Energy Secretary Steven Chu says the DOE&#8217;s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) will invest $100 million in stimulus money to support renewable energy projects.<span id=\"more-6699\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear if this is a new batch of stimulus money (on top of the $400 million the agency already allocated) or already announced funding for grant applications <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/..\/2009\/12\/doe-announces-100-million-funding-opportunity\/\">the DOE received in December<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>ARPA-E is not your mother&#8217;s venture fund. The government agency steps in to finance risky renewable energy technologies that would have a hard time finding a private sector funder &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energy.gov\/news\/8696.htm\">See here for the full press release posted today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>ARPA-E recipients are all developing cleantech technologies set to meet the DOE\u2019s broad mandate in the Obama age: Cut carbon emissions, improve energy efficiency, and lower oil exports.<\/p>\n<p>As part of its first batch of grants, in October ARPA-E <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/..\/2009\/10\/doe-the-new-vc-steps-in-with-157m-in-early-stage-investments\/\">awarded $157 million to dozens of startup companies and university labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GreenEnergyReporter\/~4\/xlFpB5Jd6zI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energy Secretary Steven Chu says the DOE&#8217;s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) will invest $100 million in stimulus money to support renewable energy projects. It&#8217;s not clear if this is a new batch of stimulus money (on top of the $400 million the agency already allocated) or already announced funding for grant applications the DOE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}