Entries for American-Made Solar Prize: Ideation

Solar presents an opportunity for rural communities to utilize additional source of power generation.

People with low credit scores might find it difficult to go solar.

Manufacture solar cells and modules anywhere and everywhere through quick and easy access to supply chain components or alternatives.

Synergies between solar and the surrounding land

Design a faster way to install solar without government permits needed at lesser cost

A dual geometry trough solar concentrator.

Land use and aesthetics with solar installation

Distribution grid map of solar/DER capability and hosting capacity

Harnessing prediction markets to anticipate solar deployment

Introduce a secondary set of wires for houses for DC loads, such as lighting, TVs, and laptops.

Develop a method to enable real time monitoring, communication, control and alignment of individual heliostats in a large field (>10,000).

Design a thermal storage system for industrial process heat applications that costs $10/kWh