TBA (last known deadline was June 15, 2010)
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) developed and maintains an integrated solar technologies analysis software tool. This tool allows NREL, outside researchers, and industry to examine the solar system impacts of various cost, financing and performance decisions and tradeoffs across all solar technologies including Concentrating Solar Power (CSP), PV and solar heat. This project is a multi-year effort at NREL. This tool is currently known as Solar Advisor Model or SAM.