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SolarWindow Gets Green Light from NREL
New Energy Technologies and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are moving with research and development on the company’s transparent SolarWindow photovoltaic technology. New Energy Technology’s SolarWindow technology consists of nano-particle spray, with PV cells that are smaller than a quarter of grain of rice and 1/1,00th the width of a human hair. Under the [...]
‘Extreme Solar Cells’ Funded by DOE’s SunShot Program
We often hear about companies or universities developing much more advanced solar cells than are on the market today, but we often don’t report on them because they may never see the light of day. As part of the Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative, $12 million will be awarded to close the gap between research and the [...]
CPV Startup REhnu Grabs SunShot Grant
REhnu, a solar company that spun out of the University of Arizonaoptics department, was awarded a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to help bring its technology to market. REhnu received one of 10 SunShot Incubator awards and was the only company working in the high-concentration photovoltaics realm, according to a release [...]
Stion: Big Winner of SunShot Incubator 7
Department of Energy just announced winners of its SunShot Incubator 7 program. In all, the DOE announced $10 million in investments in solar startups projects across U.S., with San Jose, Cali.-based Stion winning the highest amount of $2 million. Stoin developed a new tandem copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) module thin-film photovoltaic technology that’s produced [...]
The U.S Solar Permit National Database
Because solar permits are one of the most time-consuming and expensive aspects of the installation process, the Department of Energy’s (DOE) SunShot Initiative is focused on reducing those costs to significantly cut the price of solar. A new database contributes to that effort. The National Solar Permitting Database seeks to streamline complex and time-consuming solar permitting processes by aggregating [...]
My Open Letter To Secretary Chu
Dear Secretary Chu, I understand you are looking for ideas on how to make solar power more affordable for the U.S. market: The Energy Department’s SunShot Grand Challenge Summit got off to a roaring start this week in Denver, as Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced $10 million in prizes for the teams that can develop the [...]
Future Challenges for Solar Discussed at SunShot Grand Challenge
Solar’s seen a revolution of sorts over the past few years, from an obscure, expensive technology to a technology that’s the fastest growing family of energy technologies in the world that, while still expensive, is becoming cheaper everyday. That’s being fueled by a number of factors, including innovation, cost-drops and efficiency increases. But to continue [...]
DOE Secretary Chu Talks SunShot
Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu delivered the keynote speech at the DOE’s SunShot Grand Challenge Summit and Technology Forum this week at Denver’s Hyatt Regency from June 13 to 14. The two-day event brought together a wide range of academia, scientists, company executives, policy experts and more, to discuss how the US can remain [...]
The DOE’s Sunshot Vision Study
The DOE‘s Sunshot Vision Study provides an in-depth assessment of the potential for solar technologies to share a significant portion of electricity demand in the United States in the coming decades. Using NREL‘s Regional Energy Deployment System (ReEDS) and Solar Deployment System (SolarDS) models, the SunShot Vision Study provides least-cost geographical deployment of solar technologies, among other [...]