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The Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology (ADEPT) funding opportunity (DE-FOA-0000288) is an ARPA-E solicitation from the U.S. Department of Energy focused on breakthrough advances in power electronics. ARPA-E, created under the America COMPETES Act and initially funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, is set up to back high-risk, high-reward applied research that can reshape the energy landscape. This FOA fits that mission by targeting technologies that could materially cut U.S. electricity use and help the country reduce reliance on foreign energy imports, lower energy-related emissions (including greenhouse gases), and strengthen U.S. leadership in advanced energy technology development and deployment.

The core technical aim of ADEPT is to invest in next-generation power electronic technologies that can leap ahead of conventional designs. Power electronics are central to how electricity is converted, controlled, and delivered in everything from the grid and industrial motors to consumer electronics and renewable energy systems. Because roughly 40 percent of U.S. primary energy consumption is tied to producing electricity, even modest improvements in electrical conversion and control can translate into very large system-wide savings. ADEPT is explicitly framed around the potential for major impact: enabling a 25 to 30 percent reduction in electricity consumption (described as roughly 12 percent of total U.S. energy consumption) along with significant reductions in the cost and physical size (form factor) of power electronic systems. In other words, ARPA-E is looking for transformative approaches that improve efficiency while also making power electronics cheaper and more compact, which can accelerate real-world adoption.

Administratively, this announcement is a discretionary federal funding opportunity using cooperative agreements, meaning awardees should expect substantial federal involvement during project execution compared with a more hands-off grant. The FOA projected about 15 awards with an estimated total program funding level of $30,000,000. Individual awards were expected to range from $500,000 (floor) up to $10,000,000 (ceiling). The opportunity listed no cost-sharing or matching requirement. Eligibility was described as unrestricted (open to any type of entity), subject to any additional eligibility clarifications that may appear in the full FOA text.

This specific notice is an amendment requesting full applications and sets a firm submission deadline of Monday, May 24, 2010 at 5:00 PM Eastern Time, while encouraging applicants to submit earlier. The original closing date was April 2, 2010, but the current closing date reflected in the amendment is May 24, 2010. The FOA was posted March 2, 2010, with an archive date of August 15, 2010. Applications had to be submitted through the ARPA-E eXCHANGE site (referenced as https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov/ in the announcement text), and applicants were directed there for attachments, forms, and instructions. Questions about the FOA were to be submitted by email to ARPA-E at ARPA-E-CO@hq.doe.gov. For access issues with the full announcement, the contact listed was John T. Harris, Contracting Officer, at 202-287-1055 and john.harris@hq.doe.gov.

In practical terms, ADEPT is best read as a push to catalyze disruptive power electronics innovations with measurable efficiency gains and clear pathways to broad impact. The program’s framing emphasizes not just incremental component improvements, but step-change technologies that could reduce national electricity demand and make power conversion hardware smaller and less expensive, thereby unlocking efficiency benefits across many sectors that increasingly depend on electricity as a primary energy carrier.

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