As important as the funding is, DOE will also partner with the award winners to address issues such as market analysis, technology development, deployment, instrumentation and data analysis, the mitigation of environmental impacts, and grid interconnection.
The luxury of long technology evaluation cycles, introspective analysis of systems, and long deployment timeframes are giving way to rapid deployments and systems designed for accuracy and speed.
Importantly, the Wallop amendment would also have afforded the Congress an opportunity to evaluate the Defense Department's analysis for 30 days before any commitment to such a deployment might be made.