Program overview: the energy transition towards net-zero by 2050 demands an unprecedented level of innovation that must be completed in the span of a generation

The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy awarded a Cooperative Agreement of $933,850 to Solidion Technology Inc. on November 13, 2025, under the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy program (CFDA 81.135). The award runs through November 12, 2028, with place of performance in Dallas, Texas.

The source does not specify the particular products, services, or activities Solidion Technology will deliver under this award. The program context indicates that ARPA-E funds high-potential, high-impact energy technologies too early for private-sector investment, with the VISION OPEN initiative challenging the research community to develop groundbreaking technologies supporting three goals: greenhouse-gas-free abundant primary energy, an intermodal energy superhighway for diversified primary energy transport, and sustainable carbon transition for polymers and materials production. The specific technical focus of Solidion Technology's work under this award is not identified in the source.

Global primary energy usage has increased continuously for the past century. This increase is expected to continue with improved standards of living and the rapid expansion of new technologies with high levels of energy-intensive computation, such as artificial intelligence. Present grid capacity is constrained and cannot accommodate these increasing primary energy needs to reliably deliver power on demand. Meanwhile, all paths through the energy transition require concurrent efforts to decouple the production of essential carbon-based materials from harmful greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Since the agency's inception, the arpa-e open program has served as an opportunity to advance transformative energy breakthroughs in critical areas that fall outside the scope of its technology-focused programs. Vision open challenges the research community to develop groundbreaking technologies to enable a future energy landscape that is dramatically different. The vision includes three goals that are critical to achieve a sustainable energy and carbon transition with: 1) GHG-free abundant primary energy; 2) an intermodal energy superhighway that transports diversified forms of primary energy; and 3) a carbon transition that sustainably meets demand for polymers and other materials. To view the FOA in its entirety, please visit https://arpa-e-FOA.energy.GOV.