Entries for Solar Prize Round 4

Mobile, Turnkey Solar Nanogrids pre-engineered with Solutions Inside, and pre-configured for set-up by one person in less than 15 minutes

Miniature machine learning device for teams to develop valuable prediction models of their energy use and local renewable energy potential

Team OGRE created a mobile, modular solar energy system to address the needs of homeless students, displaced families, and remote workers.

Highly efficient, flexible tandem solar cells based on ultra-thin, two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs)

We're accelerating the advent of clean transport & energy production with self-charging vehicles. Perpetual motion made possible.

Off-grid emergency solar power and battery backup/energy storage, transforming to grid-tied installations during non-emergency times.

Rent.Solar created the SunKit to be a portable, affordable, flexible and sustainable alternative to portable generators.

A room temperature liquid-metal thin-film deposition technique for low-cost CSP polymeric mirror reducing CAPEX by 80% and film cost by 50%

The Solar MiniTower - generating substantial solar electricity in a small space.

Use of very cold seawater to cool floating photovoltaic power systems to increase power production.

Solar SEED-POD generates off-grid electricity without relying on batteries and can scale-up by accommodating energy storage at any time.

New technology to be integrated with power optimizers and microinverters that increases their efficiency (60% more) during partial shading.

Maximize real world panel efficiency and shade tolerance by leveraging MPPT per string instead of per panel

A high efficiency hyperbolic main reflector and a drastically improved thermal target, supported by an easy to install dual-axis tracker.

We propose a new microinverter design that can be mounted in front of solar modules rather than behind them.

Optimizing the fabrication of perovskite cells by the slot-die method, for fast, wide-area deposition.