About 69 projects in 24 states will accelerate research and development to increase efficiency, lower costs and advance cutting-edge technologies.
The projects will also improve materials, manufacturing processes and supply chains for a wide range of photovoltaic (PV) solar cells and components of solar energy systems.
DoE will provide funds for six categories of projects, of which nine projects to receive $42m to advance extreme balance of system hardware cost reductions.
Eighteen projects to receive $35.8m for a foundational program to advance cell efficiency, eight projects will receive $25.9m to study advanced concepts on solar energy grid integration systems.
Twenty-three projects are to receive $22.2m to develop transformational PV science and technology and seven projects to receive $13.6m to reduce market barriers and non-hardware balance of system costs and four projects to receive $5.8 million.SunShot Incubator.
The projects will fund two different tiers of transformational projects, with the first level including development of new technologies from concept to commercial viability.
The second level of funding will support efforts that shorten the overall timeline from laboratory scale development to pilot line manufacture.
