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On October 12, 2021, SETO announced that 40 projects were awarded $40 million . Twenty-five of those projects will receive almost $33 million to research and develop CSP technologies that help reduce costs and enable long-duration solar energy storage and carbon-free industrial processes in the United States. Read about the SETO …