The team will work on improving several aspects of the process solar power plants use to turn heat from the sun into a fluid with thermal energy that can be converted to electricity.
Work on the project will take place at UW-Madison and a prototype facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The Department of Energy hopes to reduce the cost of solar energy to make it cost-competitive with fossil fuels by 2020.
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