American-Made Heliostat Prize
Funds U.S. innovators developing and demonstrating heliostat components through a DOE prize competition under the American-Made Challenges program.
The American-Made Heliostat Prize is a prize competition administered by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), specifically its Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO). It sits under the American-Made Challenges program, DOE's initiative to accelerate domestic manufacturing and energy technology development by incentivizing U.S. entrepreneurs and …
Concentrating solar-thermal power, heliostats, thermal energy storage, and high-temperature process heat. The prize targets technology innovation through the design, development, and demonstration of key heliostat components.
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