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Funding was made available for applicants in university and industry. The selected projects are: Bay Area PV Consortium (Stanford, CA) – $25 million for University-Focused Development Bay Area PV Consortium (BAPVC) will fund industry relevant research and development to impact high volume PV manufacturing using a competitive selection process open to all universities. This project will develop and test the innovative new materials, device structures, and fabrication processes necessary to achieve cost effective PV modules in high volume production. The research will advance technologies that bring down manufacturing costs and improve device performance characteristics to help achieve SunShot’s price targets. An industry board composed of representatives from PV companies will determine the specific topics for research and development to assure close alignment with industry and manufacturing needs.
SVTC Technologies (San Jose, CA) – $25 million for Industry-Focused Development SVTC will create a fee-for-service PV Manufacturing Development Facility (MDF) that will enable start ups, materials suppliers, and other PV innovators to eliminate a major portion of their up-front capital and operating costs during product development and pilot production. This will potentially accelerate development and time to market by 12 to 15 months. The MDF will focus on silicon PV manufacturing processes and technologies, and aim to reduce the costs and development time for participating PV industry leaders to deliver innovative, emerging technologies from the laboratory to commercial manufacturing lines. The MDF will support SunShot targets by strengthening and accelerating growth along the PV industry’s supply chain by reducing the cost, time, and risk associated with commercialization. U.S.
Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium (Albany, NY and Palm Bay, FL) – $62.5 million for Industry Focused Development Managed by SEMATECH, the U.S. Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium (PVMC) will coordinate an industry driven research and development initiative to accelerate the development, manufacturing, and commercialization of next generation copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) thin film PV manufacturing technologies, driving down the cost and risk of bringing them to the marketplace.
PVMC with its major partner, The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at the State University of New York at Albany, will establish manufacturing development facilities that PV companies and researchers can use for product prototyping, demonstration, and manufacturing to evaluate and validate CIGS thin film and PV manufacturing technologies.
PVMC will also work with The University of Central Florida to develop cost-effective in-line measurement and inspection tools to enable increased manufacturing yield. In addition, PVMC will operate programs to foster new PV technologies and firms, and to develop the U.S. PV workforce. The project will use heavy industry leveraging funds for every $1 of DOE funding. The SunShot program builds on the legacy of President Kennedy’s 1960s “moon shot” goal, which laid out a plan to regain the country’s lead in the space race and land a man on the moon. The program will aggressively drive innovations in the ways that solar systems are conceived, designed, manufactured and installed.
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