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Bay Area PV Consortium announces $7.5 million in grants to lower the cost of large-scale solar
Date:5/17/2012

iversity research," said BAPVC co-director Yi Cui, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at Stanford, and of photon science at SLAC. "We have created an environment where universities and industry from across the country can communicate. It's really a national consortium."

$1 per watt

The BAPVC is a key part of the DOE SunShot Initiative to reduce the installed price of large-scale photovoltaic systems from $3 per watt to $1 per watt by 2020 without government subsidies.

Today, less than 1 percent of the electricity generated in the United States comes from solar power. But at $1 per watt, solar-generated electricity would be comparable in cost to electricity produced from coal-powered power plants.

That would give utilities a strong economic incentive to begin installing photovoltaic systems across the country, which in turn would dramatically increase the percentage of solar-generated power in the United States, according to DOE projections.

In a utility-scale photovoltaic system, about half of the installed cost goes into permits, power electronics, mounting hardware and other on-site construction costs. The solar module itself accounts for about half of the cost.

"To achieve the DOE's aggressive price reduction of $1 per watt by 2020, the module cost will have to go below 50 per watt," Cui said. "That is the goal of the consortium."

Whole-module approach

To address the DOE's price-cutting challenge, the consortium has adopted a whole-module approach to its research effort.

"Innovation will be required in every component of a solar cell module in order to achieve a price of 50 per watt," said BAPVC co-director Ali Javey, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at UC-Berkeley. "While the solutions may be revolutionary, they must also be timely. We're looking for innovative technologies that can be transferred from the
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Contact: Mark Shwartz
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Stanford University
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