ARPA-E Chief Urges Biden To ‘Speed’ Development Of Clean Energy

January 11, 2021
The outgoing director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) is urging the incoming Biden administration to emphasize speed over cost in approving and funding clean-energy projects as it hopes to develop promising low-carbon technology to address climate change. “Speed matters,” said ARPA-E Director Lane Genatowski in his advice for the next administration, which will likely rely on the Department of Energy (DOE) to prioritize and commercialize projects for reducing the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions. “When you trade off money...


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