ARPA-E OPEN
Funds United States energy teams with broad innovation support for high-impact technology development.
About
ARPA-E OPEN sits under the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy and is the agency's broad, recurring solicitation for hard-tech energy research. It is a U.S. grant programme with a triennial cycle, currently marked between cycles, and the record points to a next round around Q3 2026. Award sizes run from $500,000 to $10 million, with a median actual award of about $1.48 million.
The program…
Max award$10M
Realistic median$1.5M
Success rate5–10%
Decision time30 weeks
ARPA-E OPEN 2026
Opens 15 Jul 2026 · Closes 15 Oct 2026 · Decision 1 Apr 2027
Scheduled