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As part of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) SunShot Initiative, Energy Secretary Steven Chu recently announced nearly $170 million in funding over three years to support the advancement of solar photovoltaic (PV) technologies. The funding supports the SunShot goal to reduce the total cost of solar energy systems by about 75% before the end of the decade.
DOE Announces Funding to Help Achieve Cost-Competitive Solar Energy
Seeded on Mon May 16, 2011 5:45 PM EDT
Article Source: U.S. Department of Energy - EERE
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Foundational Program to Advance Cell Efficiency (F-PACE): Funding collaboration with the National Science Foundation; provides up to $39 million for R&D related to solar device physics, improved PV cell performance, and reduced module costs for commercial applications.
Extreme Balance of System Hardware Cost Reductions (BOS-X): Funding up to $60 million for research, development, and demonstration of BOS components. Includes hardware-related projects as well as work in codes and standards to accommodate innovative, low-cost hardware designs.
Solar Energy Grid Integration Systems—Advanced Concepts: Provides $40 million in funding to develop technologies designed to increase the integration of solar energy onto the electrical grid and facilitate interactions between solar energy systems and Smart Grid technologies. Funding will also support high-voltage systems that reduce installed costs associated with BOS costs for utility-scale installations and projects focused on technologies like micro-inverters capable of harvesting higher amounts of energy.
PV Next Generation: Provides $30 million in funding for early-stage applied laboratory-scale research to demonstrate and prove new concepts in materials, processes, and device designs for solar PV component development.
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#1 - Mon May 16, 2011 5:46 PM EDTA step in the right direction....but why can we only "spare" 170 million for solar development and give the fossil fuel industry billions that they don't need?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtMC2MXc_n8&feature=related
The heating/cooling system described above has definite possibilities if it could be built to be affordable to the consumer.
Passive solar should be incorporated into all of our buildings and homes....and really should not add any or much cost to the final product and provide savings that will pay off each year.
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IF contractors / builders would do more in the way of building homes & businesses with photo voltaic , solar hot water, geo thermal, and vertical axis wind turbines... when they are new that would go a long way he transitioning and not leave it up to some poor schmuck later...
Here is more information:
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/solar/
Green Contractors Expo 2011
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