Energy Department Offers $9 Million to Boost Solar Energy Systems

The Energy Department on December two announced in excess of $9 million for breakthrough research and development plans that will advance the reliability and durability of solar photovoltaic (PV) technologies. This backing opportunity will support plans aimed at improving product testing and increasing module quality and performance.

Eligible plans will examine the performance of PV modules and develop accelerated tests to better understand how solar modules change over time and achieve improved lifetime performance of the modules. Key focus areas will include using physics and chemistry and advanced data analysis to gain a better understanding of why solar modules fail, developing improved product tests and new rapid testing techniques or instruments that evaluate module reliability, and improving data models to predict performance over time. See the Energy Department news release.

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