New York City - Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler announced that Columbia University was awarded two grants totaling more than $4.8 million from ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy) as part of the agency's new OPEN 2021 program. These grants will advance technologies for a wide range of areas, including electric vehicles, offshore wind, storage and nuclear recycling. These investments will increase domestic clean energy technology production, strengthen the nation's energy security, and uplift the economy by creating good-paying jobs. The grants were awarded to the following projects:

• Lithium-Ion Bobbin Cells for Grid Scale Energy Storage ($1,498,553)
• High Capacity Electrolyzers Based on Ultrathin Proton-Conducting Oxide Membranes ($3,375,712)

 
"I am incredibly proud to once again join my alma mater in announcing a new set of grants earmarked for the development of critical technologies," said Congressman Nadler. "This new round of grants demonstrates why the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia is a worldwide leader in innovation and will help ensure it remains so. I want to thank the researchers, professors, and students at Columbia for their hard work, and I applaud their endless drive toward academic and scientific excellence."

“We are thrilled to receive this support from ARPA-E for our researchers who are doing incredible work in clean energy technology,” said Shih-Fu Chang, interim dean of Columbia Engineering. “This type of investment in research and innovation and collaboration among academia and government will go a long way toward advancing a more sustainable energy future for all.”