The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) announced the American-Made Solar Prize Round 8—a $4 million prize program designed to spur innovations in the nation’s solar hardware and software technologies and address challenges to rapid, equitable solar energy deployment.
Anyone based in the United States with a potentially marketable solar technology solution is eligible to compete and can sign up on the HeroX prize platform. Potential applicants include students, professors, small business owners, and researchers. This challenge requires competitors to make progress quickly, form private-sector partnerships, and engage customers to bring ideas to life. Competitors will have access to the American-Made Network to find partners and testing facilities to accelerate their progress.
DOE is interested in solar hardware and software technologies. Hardware innovations should be able to be manufactured in the United States. Software innovations should help address the non-hardware costs of solar, like customer acquisition, financing, and grid integration.
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