The Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy (ARPA-E) intends to issue
a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), soliciting applications for financial
assistance to fund new technologies that enable localized thermal envelopes
around building occupants. These
technologies are expected to reduce the nation’s energy consumption by widening
the heating and cooling setpoints in buildings, while maintaining the thermal
comfort of building occupants. This FOA represents
a radical shift in thermal comfort management practices from today’s centralized
building systems to more distributed and localized solutions. Previously,
ARPA-E held a workshop on this topic. More information on the workshop can be
found at http://arpa-e.energy.gov/?q=arpa-e-events/personal-thermal-management-reduce-building-energy-consumption-workshop.
Currently, ARPA-E anticipates that there will be three specific areas
of interest indentified in the FOA as follows: (1) on-body wearable technologies,
(2) near range (<1 m) energy transfer, and (3) direct energy transfer to the
human body from a distance (>1 m). In addition, system level solutions that
employ any combinations of the three areas are of interest as well. ARPA-E envisions supporting a broad range of
technologies that can achieve these objectives.
Expertise in the following Technical Areas may be useful in responding
to the FOA: human physiology, thermal management, materials science, building
heating and cooling systems, device fabrication, directed energy, testing, and
modeling. For wearable technologies, teams are encouraged to have participation
from apparel designers and experts in consumer product adoption.
As a general matter, ARPA-E strongly encourages outstanding scientists
and engineers from different organizations, scientific disciplines, and
technology sectors to form new project teams. Interdisciplinary and
cross-sector collaboration spanning organizational boundaries enables and
accelerates the achievement of scientific and technological outcomes that were
previously viewed as extremely difficult, if not impossible.
The Teaming Partner List is being compiled to facilitate the formation
of new project teams. The Teaming Partner List will be available on ARPA-E
eXCHANGE (http://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov),
ARPA-E’s online application portal, starting in April 2014. The Teaming Partner
List will be updated periodically, until the close of the Full Application
period, to reflect new Teaming Partners who have provided their information.
Any organization that would like to be included on this list should
complete all required fields in the following link: https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov/Applicantprofile.aspx.
Required information includes: Organization Name, Contact Name, Contact
Address, Contact Email, Contact Phone, Organization Type, Area of Technical
Expertise, and Brief Description of Capabilities.
By submitting a response to this Notice, you consent to the publication
of the above-referenced information. By facilitating this Teaming Partner List,
ARPA-E does not endorse or otherwise evaluate the qualifications of the
entities that self-identify themselves for placement on the Teaming Partner
List. ARPA-E 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 considered.
This Notice does not constitute a FOA. No FOA exists at this time. Applicants
must refer to the final FOA, expected to be issued in late April, or early May 2014,
for instructions on submitting an application and for the terms and conditions
of funding.