ARPA-E Reveals Electrified Airport Vision with New Innovation Agreement at San Antonio Tech Expo

Thursday, April 4, 2024

The U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, City Public Service Board and the City of San Antonio Aviation Department together with the University of Texas at San Antonio today signed a Memorandum of Understanding. It outlined joint initiations to grow and encourage technologies that comprise, but are not limited to, battery technologies and innovative battery storage solutions, sustainable aviation, enhanced electric vehicle charging, and power demand management technologies.

This MoU highlights that the first time a global airport will work together with ARPA-E—DOE’s invention wing, to fast-track the development and disposition of new energy technologies to decarbonize the aviation industry.

Evelyn Wang, ARPA-E Director, Ron Nirenberg, San Antonio Mayor, Dr. Taylor Eighmy, UTSA President and Karma Nilsson, CPS Energy Vice President of Customer Value were all present at the signing ceremony organized at Stinson Municipal Airport in San Antonio.

With this opportunity, they are happy to work together and highlight their ground-breaking energy technologies that could change aviation’s future, said Evelyn N. Wang, ARPA-E Director.

Wang added that today’s signing of MOU is one step forward in the right direction to guaranteeing that these state-of-the-art technologies are built, and integrated in America. Their expectation is that this agreement will provide the right conditions to allow electrified airports in the future.

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