PVMaT 1998 overview
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory, National Center for Photovoltaics, MS-3221, 1617 Cole Blvd., Golden, Colorado, 80401 (United States)
The Photovoltaic Manufacturing Technology (PVMaT) Project is a government/industry research and development (R&D) partnership between the U.S. federal government (through the U.S. Department of Energy [DOE]) and members of the U.S. PV industry. The goals of PVMaT are to assist the U.S. PV industry improve module manufacturing processes and equipment; accelerate manufacturing cost reductions for PV modules, balance-of-systems components, and integrated systems; increase commercial product performance and reliability; and enhance investment opportunities for substantial scale-ups of U.S.-based PV manufacturing plant capacities. The approach for PVMaT has been to cost-share the R&D risk as industry explores new manufacturing options and ideas for improved PV modules and components, advances system and product integration, and develops new system designs. These activities will lead to overall reduced system life-cycle costs for reliable PV end-products. The 1994 PVMaT Product-Driven BOS and Systems activities, as well as Product-Driven Module Manufacturing R&D activities, are just being completed. Fourteen new subcontracts have just been awarded in the areas of PV System and Component Technology and Module Manufacturing Technology. Government funding, subcontractor cost-sharing, and a comparison of the relative efforts by PV technology throughout the PVMaT project are also discussed. {copyright} {ital 1999 American Institute of Physics.}
- Research Organization:
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC36-83CH10093
- OSTI ID:
- 355417
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-980935--
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 462; ISSN 0094-243X; ISSN APCPCS
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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