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The R&D projects funded by SETO aim to improve the affordability, performance, and value of solar technologies on the grid. Learn more about SETO's goals here. Explore each of the research areas below and the research topics within them. You can also learn about the basics of solar energy and find solar energy resources.
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Solar Newsletters. Read the latest edition and subscribe to the solar newsletter . For a focus on NREL's solar analysis work, subscribe to the solar market research and analysis newsletter . NREL's solar energy research covers photovoltaics, concentrating solar power, solar grid and systems integration, and market research and analysis.
The Future of Solar Energy
Full report (PDF) The Future of Solar Energy considers only the two widely recognized classes of technologies for converting solar energy into electricity — photovoltaics (PV) and concentrated solar power (CSP), sometimes called solar thermal) — in their current and plausible future forms. Because energy supply facilities typically last ...
Solar Futures Study
The Solar Futures Study explores solar energy's role in transitioning to a carbon-free electric grid. Produced by the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and released on September 8, 2021, the study finds that with aggressive cost reductions, supportive policies, and large-scale electrification, solar could ...
Solar Technologies
Our work in ONE Lab focuses on the basic photophysics and chemistry of emerging PV materials, from QDs to molecular organics to perovskites, as well as development of scalable device architectures and large-area processing methods for emerging thin-film PV technologies. ONE Lab is a core contributor to the MIT GridEdge Solar research program ...
Researchers improve efficiency of next-generation solar cell material
Perovskites are a leading candidate for eventually replacing silicon as the material of choice for solar panels. They offer the potential for low-cost, low-temperature manufacturing of ultrathin, lightweight flexible cells, but so far their efficiency at converting sunlight to electricity has lagged behind that of silicon and some other alternatives.
Paper-thin solar cell can turn any surface into a power source
Popular Science reporter Andrew Paul writes that MIT researchers have developed a new ultra-thin solar cell that is one-hundredth the weight of conventional panels and could transform almost any surface into a power generator. The new material could potentially generate, "18 times more power-per-kilogram compared to traditional solar technology," writes Paul.
A new kind of solar cell is coming: is it the future of green energy?
Yet adding a perovskite cell produces a theoretical maximum efficiency of roughly 45%. "It's offering the potential to get 25-50% more power out of the panels. I think that's an exciting ...
Building a Solar-Powered Future
The next 30 years of solar energy is likely to look very different than the past 30. Photovoltaics (PV) and concentrating solar power are likely to continue to grow rapidly—the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) projects solar energy could provide 45% of the electricity in the United States by 2050 if the energy system is fully decarbonized—and technology costs are projected to ...
Researchers find benefits of solar photovoltaics outweigh costs
Benefits of solar photovoltaic energy generation outweigh the costs, according to new research from the MIT Energy Initiative. Over a seven-year period, decline in PV costs outpaced decline in value; by 2017, market, health, and climate benefits outweighed the cost of PV systems.
Super-efficient solar cells: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024
In May, UK-based Oxford PV said it had reached an efficiency of 28.6% for a commercial-size perovskite tandem cell, which is significantly larger than those used to test the materials in the lab ...
Growing Plants, Power, and Partnerships Through Agrivoltaics
The solar panels overhead are part of a different NREL experiment, which studies how changes in the ground surface can reflect more or less light onto two-sided (or "bifacial") solar panels that absorb light bounced up from the ground. In this two-for-one project, InSPIRE gains a new test site, while NREL's PV field performance team is able ...
Sustainable Solar at Cornell University
Solar Panel Reuse and Recycling. Researchers are devising more sustainable options for damaged and aging solar panels - employing novel materials, new processes to reclaim them, and reducing the panels' carbon footprint. ... Cornell Atkinson-funded Research. 2022 2030 Project Fast Grant: A Modular Materials Platform for Next-generation ...
Largest agrivoltaic research project in U.S ...
From increasing solar panel efficiency to conserving water to increasing crop yield, the findings from this project will provide critical insights to enable the proliferation of dual use renewable energy projects across the United States. Research from a project site in Arizona has already indicated that solar panels with crops growing ...
Major Solar Projects List
The Major Solar Projects List is a database of all ground-mounted solar projects, 1 MW and above, that are either operating, under construction or under development. The list is for informational purposes only, reflecting projects and completed milestones in the public domain. The information in the list was gathered from public announcements ...
New analysis platform shines light on utilities' solar energy future
May 13, 2024. ORNL researchers have teamed up with other national labs to develop a free platform called Open Energy Data Initiative Solar Systems Integration Data and Modeling to better analyze the behavior of electric grids incorporating many solar projects. Credit: Andy Sproles/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
Solar Industry Research Data
Growth in Solar is Led by Falling Prices. The cost to install solar has dropped by more than 40% over the last decade, leading the industry to expand into new markets and deploy thousands of systems nationwide. An average-sized residential system has dropped from a pre-incentive price of $40,000 in 2010 to roughly $25,000 today, while recent ...
Solar Research and Development Funding Programs
For a list of individual projects, view our Solar Energy Resource Database. See a list of our National Laboratory funding programs and learn more about the projects SETO funds with other offices in DOE. Reports resulting from research projects can be found on the Office of Science and Technical Information (OSTI) website.
(PDF) Solar Energy Technology
67. JRTE-2020. Solar Energy Technology. Sumedha R.G. Weliwaththage, Udara S.P.R. Arach chige. Faculty of Technology, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka. Abstract Energy resources can ...
Research status and application of rooftop photovoltaic Generation
1. Introduction. The rapid development of science and technology has provided abundant technical means for the application of integrated technology for photovoltaic (PV) power generation and the associated architectural design, thereby facilitating the production of PV energy (Ghaleb et al. 2022; Wu et al., 2022).With the increasing application of solar technology in buildings, PV modules are ...
Efficacy of solar panels boosted
Efficacy of solar panels boosted. Date: May 7, 2024. Source: University of Ottawa. Summary: Solar energy is a crucial asset in the fight against climate change, and researchers have now devised a ...
A new dimension for solar energy
Intensive research around the world has focused on improving the performance of solar photovoltaic cells and bringing down their cost. But very little attention has been paid to the best ways of arranging those cells, which are typically placed flat on a rooftop or other surface, or sometimes attached to motorized structures that keep the cells pointed toward the sun as it crosses the sky.
A bountiful harvest: Agrivoltaics blends solar energy with agriculture
The specially-designed solar panel layout will produce power and facilitate light reaching the grass. With space between the panels, the patches of shade will move as the sun moves across the sky. While the panels move to track and capture maximum light, the shade will create an area of pasture that reduces animal stress over summer months.
New free analysis platform shines light on how solar energy projects
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in collaboration with three other national labs, have developed a free online platform to help utilities understand how solar energy projects will affect the operation of their power systems. This capability can increase utilities' confidence in expanding their solar portfolios, protecting reliable delivery of electricity ...
Researchers at uOttawa boost efficacy of solar panels
The researchers found that by integrating these reflectors into solar setups, they could improve the system's energy production and efficiency, making such projects more economically viable. This discovery is significant in assessing the costs and benefits of using artificial reflectors in solar energy ventures.To study how reflective ground covers affect solar energy output, the University ...
Space-Based Solar Power: A Skeptic's Take
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory has ... Here I offer a road map of the potential chasms and dead ends that could doom a premature space solar project to failure. ... whose 164 solar panels ...
Project Overview
This project will determine if and under what conditions agrivoltaic practices in the Midwest can benefit local food production systems and what resources are needed to assist multiple stakeholders. At Iowa State University, we have initiated a public-private partnership with utility companies interested in coupling agriculture within solar ...
Renewable energy
The A$20 billion Rewiring the Nation program to provide low-cost finance to upgrade and expand the Australian electricity grid. The $15bn National Reconstruction Fund is targeting up to $3 billion in funding to support renewables and low emission technologies. The expanded Capacity Investment Scheme to deliver 32 GW of renewable energy generation.
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The R&D projects funded by SETO aim to improve the affordability, performance, and value of solar technologies on the grid. Learn more about SETO's goals here. Explore each of the research areas below and the research topics within them. You can also learn about the basics of solar energy and find solar energy resources.
Solar Newsletters. Read the latest edition and subscribe to the solar newsletter . For a focus on NREL's solar analysis work, subscribe to the solar market research and analysis newsletter . NREL's solar energy research covers photovoltaics, concentrating solar power, solar grid and systems integration, and market research and analysis.
Full report (PDF) The Future of Solar Energy considers only the two widely recognized classes of technologies for converting solar energy into electricity — photovoltaics (PV) and concentrated solar power (CSP), sometimes called solar thermal) — in their current and plausible future forms. Because energy supply facilities typically last ...
The Solar Futures Study explores solar energy's role in transitioning to a carbon-free electric grid. Produced by the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and released on September 8, 2021, the study finds that with aggressive cost reductions, supportive policies, and large-scale electrification, solar could ...
Our work in ONE Lab focuses on the basic photophysics and chemistry of emerging PV materials, from QDs to molecular organics to perovskites, as well as development of scalable device architectures and large-area processing methods for emerging thin-film PV technologies. ONE Lab is a core contributor to the MIT GridEdge Solar research program ...
Perovskites are a leading candidate for eventually replacing silicon as the material of choice for solar panels. They offer the potential for low-cost, low-temperature manufacturing of ultrathin, lightweight flexible cells, but so far their efficiency at converting sunlight to electricity has lagged behind that of silicon and some other alternatives.
Popular Science reporter Andrew Paul writes that MIT researchers have developed a new ultra-thin solar cell that is one-hundredth the weight of conventional panels and could transform almost any surface into a power generator. The new material could potentially generate, "18 times more power-per-kilogram compared to traditional solar technology," writes Paul.
Yet adding a perovskite cell produces a theoretical maximum efficiency of roughly 45%. "It's offering the potential to get 25-50% more power out of the panels. I think that's an exciting ...
The next 30 years of solar energy is likely to look very different than the past 30. Photovoltaics (PV) and concentrating solar power are likely to continue to grow rapidly—the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) projects solar energy could provide 45% of the electricity in the United States by 2050 if the energy system is fully decarbonized—and technology costs are projected to ...
Benefits of solar photovoltaic energy generation outweigh the costs, according to new research from the MIT Energy Initiative. Over a seven-year period, decline in PV costs outpaced decline in value; by 2017, market, health, and climate benefits outweighed the cost of PV systems.
In May, UK-based Oxford PV said it had reached an efficiency of 28.6% for a commercial-size perovskite tandem cell, which is significantly larger than those used to test the materials in the lab ...
The solar panels overhead are part of a different NREL experiment, which studies how changes in the ground surface can reflect more or less light onto two-sided (or "bifacial") solar panels that absorb light bounced up from the ground. In this two-for-one project, InSPIRE gains a new test site, while NREL's PV field performance team is able ...
Solar Panel Reuse and Recycling. Researchers are devising more sustainable options for damaged and aging solar panels - employing novel materials, new processes to reclaim them, and reducing the panels' carbon footprint. ... Cornell Atkinson-funded Research. 2022 2030 Project Fast Grant: A Modular Materials Platform for Next-generation ...
From increasing solar panel efficiency to conserving water to increasing crop yield, the findings from this project will provide critical insights to enable the proliferation of dual use renewable energy projects across the United States. Research from a project site in Arizona has already indicated that solar panels with crops growing ...
The Major Solar Projects List is a database of all ground-mounted solar projects, 1 MW and above, that are either operating, under construction or under development. The list is for informational purposes only, reflecting projects and completed milestones in the public domain. The information in the list was gathered from public announcements ...
May 13, 2024. ORNL researchers have teamed up with other national labs to develop a free platform called Open Energy Data Initiative Solar Systems Integration Data and Modeling to better analyze the behavior of electric grids incorporating many solar projects. Credit: Andy Sproles/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
Growth in Solar is Led by Falling Prices. The cost to install solar has dropped by more than 40% over the last decade, leading the industry to expand into new markets and deploy thousands of systems nationwide. An average-sized residential system has dropped from a pre-incentive price of $40,000 in 2010 to roughly $25,000 today, while recent ...
For a list of individual projects, view our Solar Energy Resource Database. See a list of our National Laboratory funding programs and learn more about the projects SETO funds with other offices in DOE. Reports resulting from research projects can be found on the Office of Science and Technical Information (OSTI) website.
67. JRTE-2020. Solar Energy Technology. Sumedha R.G. Weliwaththage, Udara S.P.R. Arach chige. Faculty of Technology, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka. Abstract Energy resources can ...
1. Introduction. The rapid development of science and technology has provided abundant technical means for the application of integrated technology for photovoltaic (PV) power generation and the associated architectural design, thereby facilitating the production of PV energy (Ghaleb et al. 2022; Wu et al., 2022).With the increasing application of solar technology in buildings, PV modules are ...
Efficacy of solar panels boosted. Date: May 7, 2024. Source: University of Ottawa. Summary: Solar energy is a crucial asset in the fight against climate change, and researchers have now devised a ...
Intensive research around the world has focused on improving the performance of solar photovoltaic cells and bringing down their cost. But very little attention has been paid to the best ways of arranging those cells, which are typically placed flat on a rooftop or other surface, or sometimes attached to motorized structures that keep the cells pointed toward the sun as it crosses the sky.
The specially-designed solar panel layout will produce power and facilitate light reaching the grass. With space between the panels, the patches of shade will move as the sun moves across the sky. While the panels move to track and capture maximum light, the shade will create an area of pasture that reduces animal stress over summer months.
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in collaboration with three other national labs, have developed a free online platform to help utilities understand how solar energy projects will affect the operation of their power systems. This capability can increase utilities' confidence in expanding their solar portfolios, protecting reliable delivery of electricity ...
The researchers found that by integrating these reflectors into solar setups, they could improve the system's energy production and efficiency, making such projects more economically viable. This discovery is significant in assessing the costs and benefits of using artificial reflectors in solar energy ventures.To study how reflective ground covers affect solar energy output, the University ...
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory has ... Here I offer a road map of the potential chasms and dead ends that could doom a premature space solar project to failure. ... whose 164 solar panels ...
This project will determine if and under what conditions agrivoltaic practices in the Midwest can benefit local food production systems and what resources are needed to assist multiple stakeholders. At Iowa State University, we have initiated a public-private partnership with utility companies interested in coupling agriculture within solar ...
The A$20 billion Rewiring the Nation program to provide low-cost finance to upgrade and expand the Australian electricity grid. The $15bn National Reconstruction Fund is targeting up to $3 billion in funding to support renewables and low emission technologies. The expanded Capacity Investment Scheme to deliver 32 GW of renewable energy generation.