ACEP hosts energy department program director

November 22, 2013

Cornerstone

Alaska Center for Energy and Power hosts Dane Boysen, program director of the Department of Energy, Advanced Research Projects Agency, from noon-1 p.m. on Dec. 2  in the ACEP Energy Technology Facility (Lab).

How would you like $60 million to spend on developing cutting-edge technology to solve the important energy problems in the country? As a program director at the newly established agency - charged with ensuring the nation's leadership in energy technology, Boysen has invested in technologies from natural gas compressors to next generation batteries at institutions that span the nation. What lessons might be learned from ARPA-E and how could Alaska grow their own local energy innovation ecosystem? Come find out at this guest lecture.