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Are you ready to show off your solar hardware or software innovations? ☀️🔨 The American-Made Solar Prize Round 8 challenges applicants to address roadblocks in solar energy advancements, starting with the Ready! Contest—so attend the webinar on July 9 💻 and make sure to apply by September 26. 📝

The Winners’ Circle 🎯

Congratulations to the Community Energy Innovation Prize Collegiate Track winners! 🎉 These winners positively impacted underserved communities with their clean energy projects, winning $25,000 each to share with their community partners. 🥳🎈 Learn more about these Clean Energy Champions.

In Case You Missed It 🧷

Need technical support for your community’s energy resilience planning? 📞 The Energy Transitions Partnership Project is helping U.S. coastal, remote, and island communities 🏖️ address their local clean energy goals by combining national lab research 🥼 with support from local organizations. 🙌 Apply by July 10 to receive up to $50,000 for your projects!

Hear ye, hear ye! 🔔 Arizona State University (ASU) is now part of the DOE-led Clean Energy Education & Empowerment (C3E) Initiative, joining Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University as a partnering university! 🎓 ASU is now the third university to work with DOE, supporting women in clean energy. ✨ Learn more about the C3E Initiative and how this partnership will increase women’s success in the clean energy workforce. 😀👍

What’s New in Integrated Strategies? 🤝

EERE’s 10th Annual Technology Baseline (ATB) has been a valuable energy analysis resource for almost a decade—and now, ATB has some new and improved data for offshore wind, pumped storage hydropower, natural gas, you name it! 📋✨ Register for the webinar on July 23 and learn more about ATB to plan for your clean energy future.

What’s New in Renewable Energy? 🌈

Want to support the blue economy? 🐠 Now’s your chance: EERE’s Water Power Technologies Office is offering up to $4.8 million to fund incubator and accelerator technologies, enabling collaboration to build a stronger water power innovation network. 💪😄 Check out the details here!

The Solar Energy Technologies Office’s (SETO’s) Equitable Solar Communities of Practice program supports widespread and sustainable solar adoption—and now, 30 organizations have joined the cause! 🤜🤛 With the help of its new collaborators, the program will expand solar energy across five categories: 💚 access and consumer protection; 🏘️💲 meaningful household savings, resilience, storage, and grid benefits; 🤝 community-led economic development; and 🌞 solar workforce. Tune in to the July webinars to learn more!

A few years ago, SETO invested $4.5 million to develop first-of-its-kind software to defend the electric grid from cyberattacks. ⚔️ Well, that investment has paid off! The award-winning @DisCo software is now available for free, allowing utilities and equipment manufacturers to detect cyber threats. 🤖🔎 Learn more and be sure to give the tool a try!

What’s New in Buildings and Industry? 🧱

👋 Meet Francisco Aguirre, the first college graduate in his family, with a master’s degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering. 🎓 As if that isn’t already impressive, he’s also an Oak Ridge Institute of Science and Technologies fellow through EERE’s Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office! Check out Aguirre’s interview to see how his dream of leaving a positive impact on others led him to help manufacture a better tomorrow. 🌤️

What’s New in Sustainable Transportation and Fuels? 🛴

Did you miss out on the Clean Fuels & Products Shot™ Summit in April? 😖 Don’t fret: all the materials are now available online, including the Shot’s Q&A, transcripts from day one and day two of the summit, and full recordings! 😍📽️ Check out the Shot’s materials and visit the website to learn more!