INSIGHT ISSUE 2 | 2022

10 Enabling the Digital and Energy transition Howwould you explain the overall goals of ARPA-E, for people who may not be familiar with it? The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), which is part of the U.S. Department of Energy, advances high-potential, high-impact energy technologies that are too early for private-sector investment. ARPA-E projects have the potential to radically improve U.S. economic security, national security, and environmental wellbeing. ARPA-E empowers America's energy researchers with funding, technical assistance, and market readiness. ARPA-E focuses on energy challenges that could radically improve U.S. economic prosperity, national security, and environmental well-being. We invest in short-term research projects that can have transformational impacts. ARPA-E’s mission areas, as defined by its authorizing statute, are to reduce imports of energy from foreign sources; reduce energy-related emissions, including greenhouse gases; improve the energy efficiency ARPA-E AND BUILDING AMORE ROBUST, CLIMATE-PROOF U.S. ELECTRICITYGRID THROUGH UNDERGROUNDING A clean and fair energy transition in the United States depends on a resilient electricity grid. Dr. Philseok Kim, Program Director at ARPA-E, a U.S. government agency focusing on energy technologies research, is looking into technologies to improve the reliability and resilience of U.S. electric power distribution by undergrounding. In this exclusive interview for INSIGHT, he explains the importance of a strong grid and why he invited Prysmian Group to speak at the ARPE-E 2022 Energy Innovation Summit

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