What is the benefit of continuing federal support for research and development in concentrating solar power?
Concentrating solar power is fast approaching commercial viability, and the U.S. industry is actively seeking commercial projects. To ensure the success of initial power plants and enable large-scale construction of additional ones, the industry requires continuous access to the research base that forms the foundation of CSP plant designs. Eliminating federal support for CSP at this stage could disrupt plans to build critically important, much-needed new commercial plants. Continued funding assures that the benefits of earlier U.S. investments will not be lost, and that future U.S. solar power plant capacity will be provided by a healthy domestic industry.
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