This was a topic of a session at the annual conference of the Advanced Research Projects Agency- Energy ( ARPA-E).

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Arun Majumdar , who served as the founding director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) and Acting Undersecretary of Energy, would be far and away the best choice.

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Senators Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) have all rallied around the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E), hoping to shield it from major budget cuts in the following months.

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The agency which would be hardest hit would be the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), which funds both the riskiest and most transformative, early-stage energy innovation projects, and would lose a staggering 75% of its budget under H.

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The Sunshot initiative and other key technology innovation programs like the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E), embody the kind of smart innovation policy that holds the promise of fundamentally transforming the economy and ushering in a new era of U.S. technology leadership.

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This type of grid-level storage is a priority for the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, or ARPA-E, program.

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