The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected ManTech International for a prime contract to provide scientific, engineering and technical support assistance (SETA) services for the department's SunShot Initiative. The 17-month contract is valued at about $4 million.
The DOE SunShot Initiative is a collaborative national initiative to make solar energy technologies cost-competitive with other forms of energy by reducing the cost of solar energy systems by about 75% before 2020. Reducing the total installed cost for utility-scale solar electricity to roughly 6 cents per kilowatt hour without subsidies will result in rapid, large-scale adoption of solar electricity across the United States.
Reaching this goal will re-establish American technological leadership, improve the nation's energy security, and strengthen U.S. economic competitiveness in the global clean energy race.
In announcing the SunShot Initiative, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu said, "America is in a world race to produce cost-effective, quality photovoltaics. The SunShot initiative will spur American innovations to reduce the costs of solar energy and re-establish U.S. global leadership in this growing industry. These efforts will boost our economic competitiveness, rebuild our manufacturing industry and help reach the President's goal of doubling our clean energy in the next 25 years."
Terry M. Ryan, president and chief operating officer of ManTech's Systems Engineering and Advanced Technology group, said, "ManTech has extensive experience providing traditional SETA support services to our current customers. We look forward to supporting DOE, a new customer for ManTech, and their advancement of cost-competitive solar energy technologies. Most of all, we are honored to be a part of an effort that promises to help the nation develop renewable energy and export that technology to the rest of the world."
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