The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is making a $71 million investment, including $16 million from President Biden’s infrastructure law, in R&D and demonstration projects aimed at increasing the network of domestic solar manufacturers.
The department selected projects it felt addressed gaps in the domestic solar manufacturing supply chain capacity, including equipment, silicon ingots and wafers, as well as silicon and thin-film PV cell manufacturing.
“The Biden-Harris Administration is committed to building an American-made solar supply chain that boosts innovation, drives down costs for families and delivers jobs across the nation,” says U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm.
“Thanks to historic funding and actions from the President’s clean energy agenda, we’re able to deploy more solar power, the cheapest form of energy, to millions more Americans with panels stamped made in the U.S.”
DOE selected three projects for the Silicon Solar Manufacturing and Dual-Use Photovoltaics Incubator funding program supporting the development of technologies to bring silicon wafer and cell manufacturing onshore.
Seven additional projects will advance dual-use PV technologies to harness their potential to electrify buildings, decarbonize the transportation sector and reduce land-use conflicts.
The ten selected projects are:
- Re:Build Manufacturing (Nashua, N.H.): $1.9 million
- Silfab Solar Cells (Fort Mill, S.C.): $5 million
- Ubiquity Solar (Hazelwood, Mo.): $11.2 million
- Appalachian Renewable Power (Stewart, Ohio): $1.6 million
- GAF Energy (San Jose, Calif.): $1.6 million
- Noria Energy Holdings (Sausalito, Calif.): $1.6 million
- RCAM Technologies (Boulder, Colo.): $600,000
- The R&D Lab (Petaluma, Calif.): $1 million
- Silfab Solar WA (Bellingham, Wash.): $400,000
- Wabash (Lafayette, Ind.): $1.6 million
DOE selected eight projects for the Advancing U.S. Thin-Film Solar Photovoltaics funding program:
- First Solar (Tempe, AZ and Perrysburg, OH): $6 million
- Cubic PV (Bedford, MA): $6 million
- Tandem PV (San Jose, CA): $4.7 million
- Swift Solar (San Carlos, CA): $7 million
- 5N Plus (Montreal, Canada): $1.6 million
- First Solar (Tempe, AZ and Perrysburg, OH): $15 million
- Brightspot Automation (Boulder, CO): $1.6 million
- Tau Science (Redwood City, CA): $2.1 million
Before funding is issued, the agency and applicants will undergo a negotiation process, where DOE may cancel negotiations and rescind the selection for any reason during that time.
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DOE to Invest $71M in Domestic Solar Manufacturing, Development
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As Tom Waits observed, “We’re monkeys with money and guns.”
Now, are there some extremely decent and kind people spread around the globe? Of course. But they tend not to be the billionaires who make all the important decisions as to the how our culture will conduct itself.
Well, never is a long time, as they say.
Yet imagine this scenario, which is quite possible:
Trump is impeached and removed. Almost immediately, there is an incredible outpouring of information on an additional set of crimes committed by Trump and his administration. Simultaneously, the U.S. morphs into a social democracy, and its people enjoy quality education, access to healthcare, and prosperity, not unlike those in Northern Europe and elsewhere around the globe.
Yes, there will always be Republicans promising mass deportations and whatever else appeals to a dwindling MAGA base, but I would think they will have one hell of a hard time winning a national election.
The GOP can say the American economy is skyrocketing. But then there’s that nasty little piece of reality that people can’t afford groceries and are suffering financially more generally.
Or they can day that people are suffering financially, but it’s Biden’s fault. Oops. Biden left office 588 days ago.
Or they can say that the war in Iran has driven up gas prices, but that will turn immediately because we’ve won the war. Yikes. What can we say about all these bombs?
Or they can say that all the racial hatred and divisiveness is Obama’s fault. No, that’s problematic, since he’s been gone for almost 10 years.
Trump supporters may not be too sharp, but even they are having trouble accepting all this crap.
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