Abstract
In this paper, we report on the major accomplishments of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Program (SETP) Photovoltaic (PV) Technology Incubator project. The Incubator project facilitates a company's transition from developing a solar cell or PV module prototype to pilot- and large-scale U.S. manufacturing. The project targets small businesses that have demonstrated proof-of-concept devices or processes in the laboratory. Their success supports U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu's SunShot Initiative, which seeks to achieve PV technologies that are cost-competitive without subsidies at large scale with fossil-based energy sources by the end of this decade. The Incubator Project has enhanced U.S. PV manufacturing capacity and created more than 1200 clean energy jobs, resulting in an increase in American economic competitiveness. The investment raised to date by these PV Incubator companies as a result of DOE's $ 59 million investment total nearly $ 1.3 billion.
Original language | American English |
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Pages | 3287-3291 |
Number of pages | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2011 |
Event | 37th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2011 - Seattle, WA, United States Duration: 19 Jun 2011 → 24 Jun 2011 |
Conference
Conference | 37th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2011 |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | Seattle, WA |
Period | 19/06/11 → 24/06/11 |
NREL Publication Number
- NREL/CP-5200-51476
Keywords
- clean energy
- cost competetive
- large scale
- photovoltaic
- PV
- solar
- SunShot