The US Department of Energy (DOE) has earmarked $105.5m to support around 70 PV and concentrating solar power (CSP) R&D projects, in another sign the Trump administration is warming to renewables’ economic argument.
The funds, being administered by the DOE’s Solar Energy Technologies Office , will also be used to advance grid-integration technologies and “efforts that prepare the [US] workforce for the solar industry’s future needs”.
