Progress of the PV Technology Incubator Project Towards an Enhanced U.S. Manufacturing Base

Ullal, H; Mitchell, R; Keyes, B; VanSant, K; Von Roedern, B; Symko-Davies, M; Kane, V

doi:10.1109/pvsc.2011.6186640

Title: Progress of the PV Technology Incubator Project Towards an Enhanced U.S. Manufacturing Base

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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.

Authors:: Ullal, H; Mitchell, R; Keyes, B; VanSant, K; Von Roedern, B; Symko-Davies, M; Kane, V

Publication Date:: Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2011

Research Org.:: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office

OSTI Identifier:: 1046888

Report Number(s):: NREL/CP-5200-51476
TRN: US201215%%577

DOE Contract Number:: AC36-08GO28308

Resource Type:: Conference

Resource Relation:: Conference: Presented at the 37th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC '11), 19-24 June 2011, Seattle, Washington

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 14 SOLAR ENERGY; CAPACITY; ECONOMICS; ENERGY SOURCES; FINANCIAL INCENTIVES; MANUFACTURING; SMALL BUSINESSES; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; TARGETS; SunShot; photovoltaic; PV; solar; cost competetive; large scale; clean energy

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                    Ullal, H, Mitchell, R, Keyes, B, VanSant, K, Von Roedern, B, Symko-Davies, M, and Kane, V. Progress of the PV Technology Incubator Project Towards an Enhanced U.S. Manufacturing Base.  United States: N. p., 2011. 
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                    Ullal, H, Mitchell, R, Keyes, B, VanSant, K, Von Roedern, B, Symko-Davies, M, & Kane, V. Progress of the PV Technology Incubator Project Towards an Enhanced U.S. Manufacturing Base.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1109/pvsc.2011.6186640

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                    Ullal, H, Mitchell, R, Keyes, B, VanSant, K, Von Roedern, B, Symko-Davies, M, and Kane, V. 2011.  
        "Progress of the PV Technology Incubator Project Towards an Enhanced U.S. Manufacturing Base".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1109/pvsc.2011.6186640.

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