The American Made Solar Prize, as its called is meant to incentivize U.S entrepreneurs to develop new processes and products that will reassert American leadership in the solar marketplace.
This prize is in addition to total DOE funding of up to $400 million for solar projects and technologies in 2017.
Its goal is to lower barriers American innovators face in reaching manufacturing scale by accelerating the cycles of learning while helping to create partnerships that connect entrepreneurs to the private sector and the network of DOE’s national laboratories.
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