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The American-Made program is empowering change-makers to lead the clean energy revolution. Explore the latest opportunities in this monthly digest, and find a prize challenge that is right for you. All innovators are welcome!
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The American-Made Solar Prize Round 8 is now open for applications. This multi-million-dollar prize program is designed to spur innovations in U.S. solar hardware and software technologies and address challenges to rapid, equitable solar energy deployment. Hardware innovations should be able to be manufactured in the United States. Software innovations should help address the nonhardware costs of solar power, like customer acquisition, financing, and grid integration.
This challenge requires competitors to make progress quickly, form private-sector partnerships, and engage customers to bring their ideas to life. Competitors will have access to the American-Made Network to find partners and testing facilities to accelerate their progress. Anyone based in the United States with a potentially marketable solar power technology solution—including students, professors, small business owners, and researchers—are eligible to compete.
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced its intention to launch the American-Made Large Animal and Solar System Operations (LASSO) Prize, which will offer $8.2 million in cash prizes to bring cattle agrivoltaics projects to life. With around one-third of U.S. land used for grazing cattle, co-locating solar projects and cattle grazing operations could help preserve agricultural land, generate additional income for landowners, farmers, and ranchers, and ease barriers to solar energy deployment, all while helping decarbonize the energy grid. The LASSO Prize will bring together multiple stakeholders to develop innovative co-location practices, building pilot sites and sharing information on best practices, costs, and energy and agricultural outcomes.
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DOE has launched a new prize in search of the best photos of the innovative technologies, processes, and people that will help the United States achieve a decarbonized industrial sector and a net-zero-emissions economy by 2050. This contest has a total prize pool of $27,000 to be distributed over six categories. Decarbonization will require a full-scale industrial transformation with novel technologies and a skilled workforce ready to usher in a clean energy economy. This photo contest captures the spirit of this ambitious transformation and the people and technologies who will make it happen.
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