The recent Section 201 solar trade case that has passed through the US International Trade Commission has undone some of the progress made by President Obama’s SunShot Initiative which sought to lower solar costs to make them cost-competitive with other forms of energy.
Millions of customers in hurricane-torn Florida are suffering through the aftermath of the devastating storm without power, and into this mess steps the US Department of Energy with the announcement of a solar energy initiative that seems to indicate light at the end of the grid reliability tunnel.
According to Greentech Media, SunShot has shattered its 2020 goal of reaching $1.00 per watt for utility-scale solar utility costs 3 years earlier.
The SunShot Initiative is a program conceived by the US Department of Energy in 2011 with the goal of reducing the cost of grid scale solar power to under $1.00 per watt by the year 2020. When the program began, the cost of installed solar was more than $4.00 per watt. Solar power was responsible for only one tenth of 1% of America’s total electrical resources at 1.2 gigawatts.
Thousands of solar energy jobs for military veterans could be at risk if President Trump follows through on plans to cut the SunShot program.
Yingli Americas, a wholly owned subsidiary of Yingli Solar, and Picasolar have been awarded a US Department of Energy SunShot award to support the beginning of pilot production with Picasolar’s innovative Hydrogen Super Emitter.
The United States Energy Department has announced it will provide up to $107 million in new projects and planned research and development funding through the country’s SunShot Initiative. Announced on Wednesday, the US Department of Energy (DOE) stated it would fund 40 projects with a total of $42 million through … [continued]
The United States is 70% on the way to achieving the country’s SunShot Initiative 2020 goals, according to analysts and researchers at the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Earlier this month, a suite of studies was published by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) SunShot Initiative which identify the … [continued]
The new Clean Power Plan will get an assist from US Energy Dept.’s SunShot Catalyst competition, aimed at reducing soft costs of solar energy.
The 5 winners of the first round of the SunShot Initiative’s Catalyst prize competition were recently announced at a ceremony in San Francisco. The 5 winners — which were chosen out of a field of 17 finalists — were chosen based on their successful demonstrations of solar energy software solutions. The … [continued]
