U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced more than $37 million in awards for solid-state lighting projects under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The projects selected include funding for solid-state lighting core research, product development, and domestic manufacturing. Among these projects, GE Lumination located in Valley View, Ohio, was awarded nearly $800,000 in Recovery Act funding to develop advanced manufacturing methods for warm-white light-emitting diodes (LEDs).