Transforming Energy

摘要

Radical innovation can alter the landscape of an entire industry. That's the goal of the newly formed Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy, part of the U.S. Department of Energy. Modeled after the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), ARPA-E was funded for the first time in last year's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to pursue transformational solutions to the energy problem.rnARPA-E was originally proposed in a National Academies report, Rising Above the Gathering Storm. Energy Secretary Steven Chu-then director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory-was part of the committee that proposed to create a nimble, creative agency.