On May 27, 2009, President Obama announced that the Department of Energy (“DOE”) is to provide $117.6 million to support the widespread commercialization of clean solar technologies and to scale up U.S. solar manufacturing and production. The funds are intended to promote partnerships between DOE’s national laboratories, universities, local government, and the private sector to promote and improve the U.S. solar industry. The DOE issued two funding opportunity announcements (“FOA”) for high-penetration solar deployment and market transformation and one program announcement related to concentrated solar power research and foundational photovoltaics.
For more specific information, see this recent alert.