On or about April 2, 2012, the Advanced Research Projects Agency –
Energy (“ARPA-E”) intends to issue a new Funding Opportunity
Announcement (FOA) entitled “Advanced Management and Protection of
Energy-storage Devices” (AMPED), DE-FOA-0000675. The objective of the
AMPED FOA will be to identify high-impact concepts for providing
diagnostic, prognostic, and control capabilities to significantly
increase performance and accelerate adoption of energy storage systems.
The AMPED FOA will incorporate information received in response to a
prior Request for Information entitled “Advanced Technologies for Robust
Control of Energy Storage” that was issued on February 17, 2012
(https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov/Default.aspx?Archive=1).
ARPA-E strongly encourages outstanding scientists and engineers from
different organizations, scientific disciplines, and technology sectors
to form new project teams. Interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral
collaboration spanning organizational boundaries enables and accelerates
the achievement of scientific and technological outcomes that were
previously viewed as extremely difficult, if not impossible.
ARPA-E is issuing this Announcement to facilitate the formation
of new project teams. Specifically, ARPA-E intends to publish a list of
potential teaming partners for the AMPED FOA on ARPA-E eXCHANGE
(https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov), ARPA-E’s online application portal, on
or about April 2, 2012.
Any organization that would like to be included in this list
should send the following information to ARPA-E-CO@hq.doe.gov:
Organization Name, Contact Name, Contact Address, Contact Email, Contact
Phone, Organization Type, Focus Area, and Brief Description of
Capabilities. Please insert “AMPED Teaming Partner” in the subject line
of your email. ARPA-E is particularly interested in receiving responses
from organizations with expertise in the following Focus Areas: battery
manufacturing, electric vehicles, grid-scale energy storage, electric
vehicle charging, battery safety, sensors, controls, and power
electronics.
By submitting a response to this Announcement, you consent to the
publication of the above-referenced information. The Federal Government
will not pay for the provision of any information, nor will it
compensate any respondents for the development of such information.
Responses submitted to other email addresses or by other means will not
be reviewed or considered.
This Announcement does not constitute a FOA. No FOA exists at this time.
Applicants must refer to the final FOA issued in April 2012 for
instructions on submitting an application and for the terms and
conditions of funding. ARPA-E will not review or consider noncompliant
and/or nonresponsive applications.