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Vice President Joe Biden announced that several ARPA-E companies have received millions in private financing. Pictured above is the VP visiting tsunami survivors during a recent trip to Japan. Photo credit: (Official White House Photo by David Lienemann)

Another round of funding has arrived to the doorsteps of five United States Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy companies to the tune of $100 million from private sector financing, according to Vice President Joe Biden.

The financing covers five companies that received sums between $1.5 million and $6 million totaling $15.5 million from the Energy department under the Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009 and 2010 to develop advancements in clean energy technologies namely, North Carolina-based Phononic Devices, California-based Primus Power and Transphorm, Colorado-based OPX Biotechnologies, and research center Stanford University.

 

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Author: Jhoanna Frances S. Valdez