FPN14-39

ARPA-E Issues Fusion Funding Opportunity Notice

August 29, 2014

The US Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) announced it is making up to $30 million in funding available for a new program. The Accelerating Low-cost Plasma Heating and Assembly (ALPHA) program seeks to support innovative R&D on low-cost tools to aid in the future development of fusion power. The program will focus on intermediate density fusion approaches between low-density, magnetically confined plasmas and high-density, inertially confined plasmas. ARPA-E's goal is to create a toolset to enable rapid learning through high shot rate at low cost-per-shot to catalyze the creation of new, low-cost paths to fusion power.

The deadline to submit a Concept Paper for ALPHA is 5 p.m. ET on October 14, 2014. Additional information, including the full Funding Opportunity Announcement and how to find project teaming partners, is available on ARPA-E's online application portal, ARPA-E eXCHANGE.