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SunShot Grand Challenge: Summit and Technology Forum

The SunShot Grand Challenge: Summit and Technology Forum was the first event in a series of Department of Energy Grand Challenges. This event focused on SunShot Initiative goals of achieving grid-parity solar energy within the decade.

The SunShot Summit and Technology Forum included:

• Plenary sessions featuring Energy Secretary Steven Chu and other industry leaders
• Group discussions focusing on the future priorities and transformational ideas needed to achieve the SunShot goal of cost-competitive solar by the end of the decade
• Big and Small Ideas: How to Lower Solar Financing Costs
• An interactive technology forum providing a comprehensive picture of the SunShot landscape.

Through the Grand Challenge series, the Energy Department is launching a broad-based effort to address the scientific, technological, and market barriers to achieving breakthroughs in national energy challenges. The Department is convening the best and brightest minds across government, industry, and academia to strengthen U.S. leadership in the global clean energy race, increase American economic prosperity, and capture the new markets and jobs of the 21st century.

Below are the available presentations.

• Energizing American Competitiveness in Solar Technologies, Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy, U.S. Department of Energy
• A Renewable Energy Future: Innovation and Beyond, Dan Arvizu, Director, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Revitalizing American Competitiveness in Solar Technologies, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, SunShot Program Director
• Energy Security and Technological Innovation, Dorothy Robyn, U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of Defense
• The SunShot Swerve, Dick Swanson, President Emeritus, SunPower Corporation