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DOE's Sandia National Laboratories is spending $8.5 million to help integrate solar technologies into the eletric grid. The lab picked four projects now involved in the Energy Department's Solar Energy Grid Integration Systems (SEGIS) program for awards. The projects were tapped for the grants based on how likely they are to bring reliable technologies to market that will both support and speed up the integration of solar photovoltaic (PV) technologies into the smart grid. "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," Energy Secretary Steven Chu said. The selections are the Florida Energy Center of the University of Central Florida, Petra Solar South (New Jersey), Princeton Power (New Jersey) and PVPowered (Oregon). Project contractors will provide a more than one-to-one match, bringing the total cost of the projects to $20 million.
Quick Take: Developing great new renewable energy technologies is one thing, but folding them into the electric grid is an entirely different animal. While these awards aren't huge, they will help put new technologies to work.
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