Cooperative Agreement DEEE0005737

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $63,452,217 Cooperative Agreement to Ubiquity Solar Si-Pv Division Inc. on January 15, 2025 under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087). The goal of this project is to commercialize a U.S. supply of 300 mm diameter high-quality single crystal silicon ingot for the solar photovoltaic (PV) industry. The awardee will construct a pilot manufacturing facility utilizing the Continuous...

This $274,999 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) supports the development of strain-relief interconnection and encapsulation technologies for perovskite/silicon tandem photovoltaic (PV) modules at Beyond Silicon Inc., a for-profit solar technology company based in Chandler, Arizona. The project aims to increase the competitiveness of U.S. PV manufacturing by advancing perovskite/silicon tandem PV...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) is focused on improving the efficiency of cadmium telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) technology. The $249,999 award to Iowa State University of Science and Technology will investigate a new material system, an alloy of cadmium selenide (CdSe) and cadmium sulfide (CdS), to develop a high-efficiency tandem cell arrangement with existing CdTe solar cells. The goal is to increase CdTe solar cell...

The National Science Foundation awarded Silartek LLC a $271,730 Project Grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of May 1, 2021 to April 30, 2022. The grant funds the "SBIR PHASE I: LOW-COST CLEAN ONE-STEP PRODUCTION OF SOLAR SILICON FROM NATURAL QUARTZITE" project. This project supports the development of an innovative process for producing solar-grade silicon directly from natural quartzite in a single step using plasma technology. The goal is to...

This $5,197,154 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (CFDA 81.087 Renewable Energy Research and Development) to First Solar, Inc. aims to demonstrate a high-performing 4-terminal perovskite/CIGS tandem solar module with at least 27% efficiency. The project involves collaboration between First Solar's internal R&D sites and two leading academic partners. Key objectives include passing durability testing, achieving at...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253) provides $331,194,045.63 to Group14 Technologies, Inc. to install, commission, and operate a 7,200 metric ton annual capacity silane manufacturing plant in Moses Lake, WA. The objective is to reduce foreign battery supply chain dependence by building robust U.S. silane manufacturing capacity to feed production of...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), is providing $486,160.00 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) to design electrochemical photoreactors using single and ensemble multijunction silicon particles. The project will develop the fundamental principles to fabricate these microscopic silicon particles, stabilize them in water, and enable them to efficiently perform photoelectrochemistry - the process of...

This $1,000,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports an interdisciplinary research project to study the chemical and mechanical interactions in halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) to enable the recovery, reuse, and recycling of the device components. The primary objective is to develop recyclable PSCs with minimal environmental impact and low production costs. The project team, led by the Georgia TECH Research Corp, will...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) provides $350,000 to Clemson University to develop a novel, fast, and scalable framework for next-generation silicon photonic chip design. The project, titled "FAST AND SCALABLE FRAMEWORK FOR NEXT-GENERATION VERY-LARGE-SCALE SILICON PHOTONIC DESIGN", aims to tackle a major barrier in the development of silicon photonic chips - a key technology for faster...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253) provides $11,552,157 to RG Resource Technologies, Inc. to deploy a new 120,000 units-per-year capacity manufacturing facility to support the production of the recipient's solar photovoltaic + thermal capture (PVT) system. The project aims to establish domestic manufacturing capabilities equivalent to an annual...