Project Grant DESC0020012

The federal Project Grant award, ID DESC0024957, was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Solar Unsoiled, Inc. in Durham, NC. The $199,617 award will fund the development of a photovoltaic soiling model for use with solar energy assets during the project period from July 2024 to April 2025. This research aims to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through transformative scientific discoveries...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $1,701,250 Cooperative Agreement under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to Brightspot Automation LLC. The project aims to: 1) Develop a new metrology system for imaging solar cell defects and glass crack defects in fielded CdTe solar panels and establishing baseline images prior to installation; 2) Develop an AI software platform to automatically detect defects...

This $5,197,852 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) is directed at identifying, testing, and implementing within 2 years ultraviolet light (UV) and temperature tolerant materials and cell stack designs for 27% mechanically-stacked perovskite+silicon hybrid tandem photovoltaic (PV) modules with aperture areas of at least 300 cm2. The funded project...

This Cooperative Agreement award by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $1,000,000 in funding to Superclean Glass Inc. for a 2-year project period from April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2026. The project aims to develop an electrostatic self-cleaning technology to increase the energy yield from dusty solar panels, particularly in desert regions. The research efforts will include experiments and modeling to...

60Hertz Inc. was awarded a $295,808 Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Small Business Innovation Research Program to develop an early warning system for soiling on solar energy assets. The company will use aerosol optical depth measurements from GOES-R ABI and on-site data to cue validation of soiling station and meteorological station data. This aims to help solar service companies move from reactive to proactive maintenance by identifying in...

The Project Grant award of $399,978 from the Department of Energy Office of Science will support METASURFACE-COUPLED AVALANCHE PHOTO DIODE research at Sivananthan Laboratories, Inc. in Bolingbrook, IL from June 2022 through June 2023. The award is being made under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which aims to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economic competitiveness through scientific discoveries and tools. Specifically, the...

The University of California, Davis has been awarded a $221,534 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (CFDA 81.087 Renewable Energy Research and Development) to analyze the structural and electronic dynamics of silicon topcon (tunnel oxide passivated contact) solar cells. The project aims to mitigate performance degradation of these solar cells by studying their atomic-level femtosecond dynamics and how they impact...

This Cooperative Agreement award, ID DEEE0011425, was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087). The $2,284,494 award to Tau Science Corporation will fund a project titled "Project MANTIS" to apply multiscale characterization and analysis methods to CdTe photovoltaic (PV) modules. The project aims to identify electrical and optoelectronic...

Superclean Glass Inc. received a $255,974 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation on December 1, 2021 to support work concluding on November 30, 2022. The grant funds the development of a new generation of electrostatic self-cleaning technology to increase energy yield from dusty solar panels under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation and...

This 18-month 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) provides $250,000 to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation to advance low-cost, scalable, in-line electrochemical defect quantification platforms. The goal is to elucidate the impacts of light- and thermal-induced halide migration at buried interfaces that contribute to decreased stability of high-performing,...