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Sustainable and Holistic Integration of Energy Storage and Solar PV (SHINES) Award Number: DE-EE0007177 CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6 Solar Energy Technologies Office Date: 12/23/15 Location(s): TX Office(s): Golden Field Office

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December 23, 2015
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Sustainable and Holistic Integration of Energy Storage and Solar PV (SHINES)
Award Number: DE-EE0007177
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6
Solar Energy Technologies Office
Date: 12/23/2015
Location(s): TX
Office(s): Golden Field Office

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to Austin Energy to install solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, distributed battery storage, smart solar inverters, a distributed energy resource (DER) control platform, and other enabling technologies utilizing customer and utility locations and multiple aggregation models.

The proposed project is comprised of three Budget Periods (BP) each with one main task and multiple subtasks. There would be a Go/No-Go decision at the end of BP 1 and there would be a Go/No-Go decision at the end of BP 2.