American-Made Solar Desalination Prize
Funds U.S. teams developing low-cost solar-thermal desalination systems through a multi-stage prize competition with a $1 million grand prize.
The American-Made Solar Desalination Prize is a multi-stage prize competition administered by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (DOE EERE), Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO). It operates under the American-Made Challenges program, which uses prize competitions to incentivize U.S. entrepreneurs and accelerate ideas and prototypes to manufacturing…
Solar desalination — specifically low-cost desalination systems that use solar-thermal power to produce clean drinking water from salt water.
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