Tag: National Renewable Energy Laboratory
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Sol-REIT sets goal to raise $175 million to fund community solar projects by 2025
Sol-REIT has joined the Department of Energy’s National Community Solar Partnership (NCSP) as part of the firm’s commitment to fund more than $175 million in community solar projects by 2025. For solar developers with projects at or beyond their notice to proceed, Sol-REIT provides construction capital and/or permanent debt that matches an asset’s operational life……
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Update on the commercial prospects of perovskite solar cells
In our worst Seinfeld impersonation voice we ask, “what’s the deal with perovskite solar cells?” The National Renewable Energy Labratory (NREL) answers us by noting that a strategy for producing stable and commercially available perovskite solar cells (PSCs) has been proposed by Kai Zhu and Keith Emery in collaboration with Nam-Gyu Park (Korea), MichaelRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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What factors drive solar PV system prices lower?
Lower solar PV system costs are the driving force in much of the industry today, and strides on that front are the reason solar is in the growth position it is in today. But despite across the board price decreases, there is a disparity in pricing in different areas of the country,Read More — Solar Builder magazine
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Details on funding of new solar, grid technology awarded by Energy Department
The Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will play key roles in a variety of projects recently funded by the Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). NREL’s innovative approaches have received five awards across three different ARPA-E programs for advancing transformational technologies to generate, store, and use energy moreRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Cheap Cellulosic Biofuels Targeted In NREL Hook-Up
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory and specialty chemicals company Johnson Matthey say they’ll work together on slashing the cost of nonfood-based biofuels. Thank you for your interest in this story. To read the rest of it, please visit EarthTec…