Title: New England energy projects attract $18.5M in DOE awards - MassHighTech - (includes Members Beacon Power & General Compression)

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New England energy projects attract $18.5M in DOE awards

By Kyle Alspach
MassHighTech

New England energy research projects will receive $18.5 million through the latest round of funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), the DOE announced Monday.

Among the awards are $4.4 million for a power electronics project led by MIT, $2.2 million for an energy storage project at Tyngsboro-based Beacon Power Corp. and three projects – totaling nearly $9 million – led by the United Technologies Research Center in East Hartford, Conn.

The funding, which stems from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, totals $92 million nationwide in this round, the DOE said. It is the third and final round of ARPA-E grants from Recovery Act funding, which has totaled $349 million in funding.

Read more about the awards which include two Council Members: Beacon Power and General Compression.