American-Made PRIME Prize
Funds U.S. solar manufacturers and innovators registering photovoltaic modules and inverters with the EPEAT ecolabel through a prize competition.
The American-Made PRIME (Promoting Registration of Inverters and Modules with Ecolabel) Prize is a $2.7 million prize competition run by the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Energy Technologies Office (DOE SETO) under the American-Made Challenges program. American-Made Challenges is DOE's prize framework designed to push U.S. entrepreneurs to advance ideas from early concept to manufacturing scal…
Solar photovoltaic (PV) modules and inverters; EPEAT ecolabel registration; product sustainability and environmental standards for solar hardware.
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