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(Request Permission) Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. An Assessment of ARPA-E AN ASSESSMENT OF ARPA-E Committee on Evaluation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy Policy and Global Affairs Board on Energy and Environmental Systems Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences A Report of PREPUBLICATION COPY—UNEDITED PROOFS Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. An Assessment of ARPA-E THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS 500 Fifth Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 This activity was supported by Contract No. DE-PI0000010, Order Number DE-DT0008147, with the U.S. Department of Energy, and Grant No. G-2014-13809 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. 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Reports are peer reviewed and are approved by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Proceedings chronicle the presentations and discussions at a workshop, symposium, or other convening event. The statements and opinions contained in proceedings are those of the participants and have not been endorsed by other participants, the planning committee, or the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. For information about other products and activities of the National Academies, please visit nationalacademies.org/whatwedo. PREPUBLICATION COPY—UNEDITED PROOFS Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. An Assessment of ARPA-E COMMITTEE ON EVALUATION OF THE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY – ENERGY (ARPA-E) PRADEEP K. KHOSLA (NAE), Chancellor, University of California, San Diego, Chair MAXINE SAVITZ (NAE), General Manager (ret.), Honeywell, Inc., (Vice Chair for Technical Evaluation) PIERRE AZOULAY, International Programs Professor of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology TERRY BOSTON (NAE), Director, GridLiance GP, LLC and Grid Protection Alliance ERICA R. H. FUCHS, Professor, Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University SUPRATIK GUHA (NAE), Professor, Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago; and Director, Nanoscience and Technology Division, Argonne National Laboratory MARK JONES, Executive External Strategy and Communication Fellow, The Dow Chemical Company ERIC LANDREE, Associate Research Department Director, Engineering and Applied Sciences Department, and Senior Engineer, RAND Corporation GILBERT E. METCALF, Professor of Economics, Tufts University JOHN PLASTER, Managing Director, Global Power and Utilities Group, and Head of Alternative Energy, Barclays Capital LOUIS SCHICK, Founding Partner and CTO, NewWorld Capital Group CHARLES SHANK (NAS/NAE), Senior Fellow, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, Physics, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley STEPHANIE S. SHIPP, Deputy Director and Research Professor, Social and Decision Analytics Laboratory (SDAL), Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech SCOTT STERN, David Sarnoff Professor of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology JOHN WALL (NAE), Vice President and CTO (ret.), Cummins, Inc. JAY WHITACRE, Professor, Engineering and Public Policy and Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University (Member 5/8/2015-9/20/2016) VALERIE WILLIAMS, Senior Program Evaluator, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research PEIDONG YANG (NAS), S. K. and Angela Chan Distinguished Chair Professor in Energy and Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley v PREPUBLICATION COPY—UNEDITED PROOFS Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. An Assessment of ARPA-E PROJECT STAFF BOARD ON SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND ECONOMIC POLICY POLICY AND GLOBAL AFFAIRS PAUL BEATON, Study Director GAIL COHEN, Board Director JEFF ALSTOTT, Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellow CHRISTOPHER J. JONES, Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellow DAVID ALLEN AMMERMAN, Financial Officer DAVID DIERKSHEIDE, Program Officer FREDERIC LESTINA, Senior Program Assistant ERIK SAARI, Senior Program Assistant BOARD ON ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS DIVISION ON ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES K. JOHN HOLMES, Study Co-Director LIZ EULLER, Senior Program Assistant vi PREPUBLICATION COPY—UNEDITED PROOFS Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. An Assessment of ARPA-E BOARD ON SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND ECONOMIC POLICY For the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, this project was overseen by the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP), a standing board established by the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering and the Institute of Medicine in 1991. The mandate of the STEP Board is to advise federal, state, and local governments and inform the public about economic and related public policies to promote the creation, diffusion, and application of new scientific and technical knowledge to enhance the productivity and competitiveness of the U.S. economy and foster economic prosperity for all Americans. The STEP Board and its committees marshal research and the expertise of scholars, industrial managers, investors, and former public officials in a wide range of policy areas that affect the speed and direction of scientific and technological changes and their contributions to the growth of the U.S. and global economies. Results are communicated through reports, conferences, workshops, briefings, and electronic media subject to the procedures of the National Academies to ensure their authoritativeness, independence, and objectivity. The members of the STEP Board and staff are listed below: RICHARD K. LESTER, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chair JEFF BINGAMAN, Former U.S. Senator, New Mexico