As part of its continued focus on helping America develop and promote alternative, clean energy sources, the US Department of Energy has established a new special agency – ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy). The goal of the new agency is to facilitate the innovation and pioneering of cutting-edge energy technology that will help usher the US – and the world – into the 21st century of energy generation and distribution. ARPA-E will achieve this not by handling the research themselves, but by in investing in clean-tech research projects done by outside teams at universities, national labs, and industrial powers.
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