2015 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit

ARPA-E held its sixth annual ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit February 9 - February 11, 2015 at the Gaylord Convention Center just outside Washington, D.C. The Summit brought together thought leaders from academia, business, and government to discuss cutting-edge energy issues and facilitate relationships to help move technologies into the marketplace.

February 9, 2015 ARPA-E Program Director/Fellow Fast Pitch (session video)
Dr. Tim Heidel, Program Director, "Optimization of Electricity Transmission Networks to Facilitate Renewables Integration" 

Tim's Presentation starts at 26:50 into the video. The Competition is mentioned on slides 7 and 8.

Dr. Paul Albertus, Fellow, "Moving Ions, Moving Energy: Opportunities in Ion Conducting Layers"
Dr. Jason Rugolo, Program Director, "A Unified Transportation and Electricity Infrastructure"
Dr. Joe Cornelius, Program Director, "Accelerating Energy Crop Development"
Dr. Sonja Glavaski, Program Director, "From Local to Global: Distributed Energy Resources Integration"

PNNL's Henry Huang was at the Summit and discussed PNNL's interest in a possible competition with Tim Heidel, sending him on February 25 a draft white paper outlining a possible PNNL role and inviting him to PNNL for further discussions. Heidel responded April 1 with a copy of his Summit slides (see Presentation above), his own 3-page white paper, and a request to meet April 28 when he would be visiting PNNL to review a another program. Heidel also requested that Chris DeMarco (University of Wisconsin - Madison) and Hans Mittelmann (Arizona State University) be involved, bringing their data and optimization skills to the team.