Perry announces $3 million prize to boost solar manufacturing
http://www.chron.com/business/energy/article/Perry-announces-3-million-prize-to-boost-solar-12521304.phpJanuary 24, 2018
...After the White House announced Monday a new 30 percent tariff on foreign-made solar panels, the Department of Energy announced its own plans to boost the country's lagging solar manufacturing sector.
The $3 million American Made Solar Prize will pitch entrepreneurs, engineers and software developers against one another in a bid to, "develop new processes and products that will reassert American leadership in the solar marketplace," the Department of Energy said Wednesday.
"The United States possesses the talent, expertise, and vision to surpass the rest of the world in solar technologies and forge a new solar energy landscape around the globe," Perry said in a statement....
