Entries for American-Made Solar Prize: Ideation

CSP: new materials & designs for heliostat support

Identify new material components and designs for heliostat support and drive structures.

Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) , Manufacturing

solar panel 180grad

Power column Transforming wind power and solar energy into electricity It consists of a ball of semi-circular solar panels at 180 degree

by ADEL AISSAOUI's team

Power column Transforming wind power and solar energy into electricity

Whole-house DC appliance IoT integration

The market needs a developed "whole-house" solution to DC IoT appliances. Installing PV to homes with 10 year old appliances isn't smart.

by Richard Lewandowski

Smart IoT PV Home

Bifacial Value Standards

The industry is trending toward the use of bifacial cells and modules but there have been no formal industry wide protocols and standards.

by Richard Lewandowski

Increase absorption area by 300-400% within a standard panel area. No tracking needed. Amplify voltage through an inherently unique design.

by Michael Cole

Photovoltaics (PV) , PV Cell

Commercialization of DoE's SwitchGlaze

In order to make solar energy ubiquitous, we need to incorporate it into all parts of the building facade, notably windows.

by Michael Ginsberg

Hand-held module scanner

A handheld, low-power, on-site tool to determine quality or breakage of solar modules

DIY Solar- Addressing Solar’s Overserved Customers

There is an opportunity to dramatically lower the costs of solar by allowing customers to perform some of the required tasks to go solar

Permitting & Standardization

High-Speed Solar

Igniting a Century of Solar

Solar steam process heat is available globally from existing commodities, tooling, and labor skills.

Community Solar , Heat Transfer Fluids

Green Bank funding for individual power creation

A funding scheme to enable individuals to obtain the ability to create, store, and sell power in their home or business at virtually no cost

by Larry Fosgate

Photovoltaic pile varied wavelength transmission

An effort to utilize all the energy that the solar radiation. We will show an idea for the full-scale collection of solar radiation.

by Jacob Cox, MRSC

Increasing energy production from solar PV

Challenge: Find ways to increase the energy production from solar photovoltaic infrastructure.

Photovoltaics (PV) , Power Electronics , PV Module

Soft costs of photovoltaic solar

Challenge: Find ways to reduce the non-capital costs associated with building out solar PV infrastructure

Permitting & Standardization

Hard costs of photovoltaic solar

Challenge: Find ways to decrease the capital costs of solar PV infrastructure

Finance , Photovoltaics (PV)

High Throughput Semiconductor Deposition System

This HVPE deposition method enables the production of III-V material solar cells at a significantly lower cost than those created with MOCVD

by NREL Prize Administrator

NREL contributed , PV Materials , PV Reliability , Solar Module Assembling

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