ARPA-E SCALEUP Ready
Funds United States alumni technologies moving from prior support into commercial pilots and scale-out activity.
ARPA-E SCALEUP Ready is a closed-eligibility follow-on cooperative agreement program that provides large-scale funding to organizations that have previously received ARPA-E awards and are ready to advance their technology toward commercial pilots or scale-up demonstrations. The program was allocated $50 million in FY2025 and another $50 million in FY2026. The SCALEUP 2023 cohort (announced June 20…
Scale-up and pre-pilot demonstrations of energy technologies that ARPA-E has previously funded. Eligibility is restricted to prior ARPA-E awardees with mature technology ready for commercial validation.
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