News release: “U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced that the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will invest $12 million in total funding ($10 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) to support the development of early stage solar energy technologies. The Photovoltaic (PV) Incubator Program partners NREL with companies that have developed new solar cell technologies to help move the technologies to commercial scale manufacturing. Over the long-term, these companies could support new domestic high-tech manufacturing jobs.”