30.11.2012: The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) has awarded a total of more that $14 million to eight solar research projects. The projects represent transformational and disruptive energy technologies that are still too young to attract private-sector investment. The largest award, $3.6 million, went to the Georgia Institute of Technology, which is developing a high-efficiency solar reactor to produce solar fuel. Meanwhile, Microlink Devices received $3.3 million to develop high-efficiency solar cells that use crystal layers to capture concentrated sunlight, and the California Institute of Technology received $2.4 million to develop a device that focuses and splits sunlight into individual color bands to improve solar cell conversion efficiency. Otherlab Inc. received $1.6 million to develop an inexpensive method to reflect sunlight onto a solar tower using small mirrors; the University of California, Santa Cruz received $1.6 million to develop an innovative optical device for harvesting concentrated sunlight into optical fibers, solar cells and thermal storage devices; and Glint received $0.5 million to develop a solar concentrator that can capture the full amount of available sunlight regardless of the sun’s position. The DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) received a total of nearly $1.7 million for two projects, a solar thermal electric generator capable of converting heat to electricity and a plastic solar cell technology that takes advantage of a larger-than-normal part of the solar spectrum. Source: US Department of Energy http://www.energy.gov http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/solar/newsletter/detail.cfm/articleId=307 The complete press release can be viewed in PHOTON's archive using the following link:
http://www.photon-international.com/newsletter/document/72266.pdf |
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