Project Grant DEAR0002126
- Federal Cooperative Agreement Award Summary The Regents of the University of California, operating as UC Berkeley, received a $1.5 million Cooperative Agreement from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E, CFDA 81.135) under Funding Opportunity Announcement DE-FOA-0003240 (Creating Hardened and Durable Fusion First Wall Incorporating Centralized Knowledge [CHADWICK]). The award, issued April 7, 2026, with a completion date of April 6, 2029, funds research and development of a laser...
- Federal Project Grant Summary GVD Corp received a $499,926 project grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) under the IGNIITE 2025 funding opportunity (CFDA 81.135), with an award date of March 26, 2026, and performance period through March 25, 2028. The corrected project scope focuses on developing high-stability, PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances)-free membranes using chemical vapor deposition technology. This research initiative aligns with ARPA-E's mission...
- This $2,909,514 Cooperative Agreement award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E, CFDA #81.135) supports Tufts University's project titled "Solving Ore Concentrate Reduction with New Chemistry" to revolutionize the ore-to-steel process and reduce emissions. The project aims to directly reduce iron ore concentrates using ammonia, eliminating CO2 emissions from ironmaking and reducing costs by 10-25%. As part of the project, the University of Minnesota's Natural...
- Federal Grant Award Summary University of California, Irvine received a $500,000 Project Grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E, CFDA 81.135) awarded on March 16, 2026, with a completion date of March 15, 2028. The project deliverables center on developing and validating a novel natural gas-to-battery electrode manufacturing process utilizing plasma reforming and cold spray deposition technologies. The primary products include a prototype system optimized for...
- This $500,000 federal Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program (CFDA 81.135) supports Chemfinity Technologies, Inc., a minority-owned small disadvantaged business located in Brooklyn, NY, to develop an adsorption-based column process for the selective recovery of critical minerals and materials from waste streams. Chemfinity's innovative porous polymer network materials have demonstrated high selectivity, capacity, and...
- Award Summary: Phoenix Tailings Inc. SELECT Project Phoenix Tailings Inc. received a $1.6M cooperative agreement from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) under CFDA 81.135, awarded February 18, 2026, with a completion date of February 17, 2028. The project, titled "SELECT: Selective Extraction via Ligand-Enhanced Complexation and Thermal Separation," will develop and demonstrate a novel fractional distillation process utilizing volatile ligands to selectively...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Global Optimal Technology, Inc. received a $485,000 Project Grant award on December 3, 2025, from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) under CFDA 81.135 for participation in the Grid Optimization (GO) Competition Challenge 3. The award supports research and development of an innovative AC Security-Constrained Resource Commitment (SC-RC) methodology designed to schedule and optimize energy resources under alternating current power flow, ramping,...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Arbor Energy & Resources Corp received a $175,000 Project Grant award on August 15, 2025, from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 10.212). The award supports the development of an analytical predictive model to de-risk and advance Arbor's high-pressure biomass gasification technology. Deliverables include bench-scale reactor research, a...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Georgia Tech Research Corporation received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) (CFDA 81.135), effective April 1, 2026 through March 31, 2028. The award funds the development and demonstration of a hybrid desalination system based on air gap diffusion distillation (AGDD) technology designed to transform brine into clean water and recoverable minerals. This research addresses ARPA-E's strategic priorities...
- Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Shine Technologies, LLC received a $3.78M competitive cooperative agreement from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E, CFDA 81.135) awarded on September 15, 2025, for a research and development project titled "REDUCE: Recover Elements - Destroy Undesirables - Create Energy" (NEWTON, FOA DE-FOA-0003418). Over the three-year performance period extending through September 14, 2028, Shine Technologies will design, simulate, and...
Sunchem Inc. was awarded $500,000 under the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) IGNIITE 2025 competitive cooperative agreement (CFDA 81.135, Control Number 3477-1856) on April 3, 2026, with a completion date of April 2, 2028. The project, titled "Precision Separation of Critical Metals from Contaminated Mining Inputs," focuses on developing laser furnace technology to convert iron ore into iron metal without carbon dioxide emissions at lower costs than traditional blast furnaces. The core innovation leverages semiconductor laser diodes to enable new temperature and pressure ranges capable of reducing high and low-grade iron ore fines into molten iron metal, effectively replacing fossil fuels traditionally used in ironmaking with lasers powered by clean electricity. The work is being performed at Sunchem Inc.'s facility in Berkeley, California. As part of ARPA-E's mission to advance high-potential, high-impact energy technologies too early for private-sector investment, this project represents transformative innovation in sustainable industrial processes and greenhouse gas emissions reduction. The 24-month performance period aligns with typical ARPA-E project timelines and addresses critical national priorities in clean energy technology development and climate change mitigation.Federal Project Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $500.0k | 4/3/26 |