The move is part of the DOE’s ongoing work to improve the nation’s electrical grid reliability, and these investments will be matched more than one-to-one by the SEGIS contractors to support more than $20m in total projects.
DOE secretary Steven Chu said that continuing to support solar and grid technologies is necessary for America to maintain its competitive edge in the clean energy industries.
“These types of projects will help ensure that our efforts to advance renewable energy and support the modernization of our electrical grid are coordinated and integrated, helping to provide Americans with reliable, clean energy at lower costs,” Chu said.
The recent awards are follow-on selections from the first two stages of the SEGIS program, and the projects were selected based on the highest likelihood of commercialization of products that will enable and accelerate the integration of solar PV technologies into an intelligent electrical grid, DOE said.
