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Registration Open for SunShot Prize

Registration Open for SunShot Prize

The SunShot Prize will award up to $10 million to solar installers across the nation who demonstrate sustainable business solutions that reduce residential solar energy system soft costs to $1/W.

SunShot Announces Seven Awardees

SunShot Announces Seven Awardees

The Solar Program selected two university-led projects under the CSP High Operating Temperature Fluids solicitation and five research projects for the Bridging Research Interactions through collaborative Development Grants in Energy program.

SunShot Grand Challenge: Summit and Technology Forum

SunShot Grand Challenge: Summit and Technology Forum

The SunShot Summit and Technology Forum was held June 13–14, 2012, in Denver, Colorado. In addition to featuring the solar industry's most influential leaders, the event showcased the work of more than 200 SunShot awardees.

Funding Available for Solar Energy Evolution and Diffusion Studies

Funding Available for Solar Energy Evolution and Diffusion Studies

DOE is making up to $9 million available over three years through the SEEDS program to develop data-driven approaches capable of overcoming economic, social, and policy barriers that impede the spread of solar.

Report Explores the Energy Landscape of the Future

Report Explores the Energy Landscape of the Future

The SunShot Vision Study provides the most comprehensive assessment to date of the potential for solar technologies to diversify the U.S. energy portfolio as cost-reduction targets are met during the next decade.

 

The DOE SunShot Initiative is a collaborative national initiative to make solar energy cost competitive with other forms of energy by the end of the decade. Reducing the installed cost of solar energy systems by about 75% will drive widespread, large-scale adoption of this renewable energy technology and restore U.S. leadership in the global clean energy race.

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The Bright Lights in New York Could Be Solar

9/4/2012 | Blog Post

The big city glow of New York could be coming from more than the bright lights on Broadway. The Big Apple also is increasingly aglow with solar power, particularly from rooftop photovoltaic (PV) solar.

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