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The New Publicly Funded Solar Projects You Should Care About

Monday, Oct 28 2013

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The U.S. Department of Energy on Tuesday announced a slew of projects that will collectively receive about $60 million and work on making solar electricity more affordable.

The projects range from engineering new solar cells to figuring out a more efficient way to market, install and monitor a solar energy projects. The funding also will target efforts to help utilities manage the increasing amount of solar electricity flowing in and out of the electric grid.

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