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DOE announced on November 29th that $5.2 million will be divided between 12 projects to fund the development of concentrating solar power (CSP) technologies. The 12 CSP projects are focused on lowering the cost of components and developing energy stora...

DOE Secretary Samuel Bodman announced on November 8th that DOE will invest $21.7 million in researching next generation photovoltaic (PV) technology, as part of the President's Solar America Initiative. A total of 25 advanced PV projects, led by 15 uni...

DOE announced on June 20th that it will provide up to $60 million for solar energy research. Up to $2.5 million will go to 13 selected cities to promote the use of solar technologies in each city, under DOE's Solar America Cities cooperative agreements...

DOE announced on May 22nd that it has awarded $22.7 million to 27 projects aimed at improving the capture, conversion, and use of solar energy. These basic research projects will help increase the amount of solar power in the nation's energy supply and...

DOE announced on March 8th that it has selected 13 industry-led solar technology projects to negotiate for up to $168 million in funding starting in the current fiscal year (2007) through fiscal year 2009. The teams will share more than 50 percent of t...

DOE announced on October 12th that it has awarded $13 million for research in solar technologies and the development of more efficient solar panels. The funding is part of the Solar America Initiative, which aims to make solar power cost competitive wi...

DOE released a solicitation on June 28th for cost-shared, public-private partnerships to advance solar energy technology. The solicitation focuses on development, testing, demonstration, validation, and deployment of new solar photovoltaic (PV) compone...

Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham today announced the first eight projects chosen by the Department of Energy in the initial phase of President Bush's Clean Coal Power Initiative.