6 of the 37 projects awarded funding in the first round of ARPA-E grants on October 26, 2009 were led by Massachusetts companies or institutions. These projects were awarded $33.3 million of the total $151 million announced.
Awards were made to:
- MIT
- FastCAP Systems
- Agrivida
- I366 Technologies
- FloDesign Wind Turbine
- Sun Catalytix
The areas of research for these grants are:
- Energy storage
- MIT (grid-scale battery technology)
- FastCap Systems (ultracapacitors)
- Biomass energy
- Agrivida (cell-wall degrading enzymes to improve cellulosic feedstocks)
- Renewable energy
- I366 Technologies (next generation silicon wafers for PV)
- FloDesign Wind Turbine (shrouded wind turbine design for higher efficiency power generation)
- Direct Solar Fuels
- Sun Catalytix (new technology for splitting water into hydrogen & oxygen as a storage mechanism for energy generated from intermittent sources)
ARPA-E Grants to Massachusetts Organizations