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Development and Encouragement of renewable energy technologies 1.1Project Background Since its inception in the 1970s, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has operated a substantial program in the development and encouragement of renewable energy technologies. As part of its ongoing effort to document the status and potential of these technologies, DOE, along with its national laboratories and support organizations, developed the first set of Renewable Energy Technology Characterizations (TCs) in 1989. The TCs were designed to respond to DOE’s need for a set of consistent cost and performance data to support the development of the biennial National Energy Policy Plans. That first set of TCs was subsequently used to support the analyses that were performed in 1991 by DOE for the National Energy Strategy. The TCs were updated in 1993, but until now had not been formally published and existed only in draft form. The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), operating on behalf of its member utilities, has conducted a program in the assessment, evaluation and advancement of renewable power technologies since the mid-1970s. In that role, EPRI has been called upon by its members, and often by the energy community in general, to provide objective information on the status and outlook for renewables in prospective electric-power applications. Toward that aim, EPRI has joined with DOE to produce this set of Renewable Energy Technology Characterizations. This joint project is one of a number of activities that DOE and EPRI are conducting under the joint DOE-EPRI Sustainable Electric Partnership entered into formally by both organizations in October 1994. It builds upon a number of activities conducted jointly by DOE and EPRI over the past two decades. 1.2Objectives, Approach and Scope Purpose and Audience: In response to growing interest in renewable power technologies and the need for consistent, objective assessments of technology performance and costs, DOE and EPRI colla