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Energy from the Sun Workshop Emerging Technologies and Current Solar Energy Research

Energy from the Sun Workshop Emerging Technologies and Current Solar Energy Research. Goals of Solar Technology Research. Improve efficiency Improve overall cost and cost-per-kWh Reduce impact of materials used Improve viability in less sunny conditions. Areas of Research and New Technology.

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Energy from the Sun Workshop Emerging Technologies and Current Solar Energy Research

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  1. Energy from the Sun Workshop Emerging Technologies and Current Solar Energy Research

  2. Goals of Solar Technology Research • Improve efficiency • Improve overall cost and cost-per-kWh • Reduce impact of materials used • Improve viability in less sunny conditions

  3. Areas of Research and New Technology • Passive solar heating • Active solar water heating • Electrical power generation • Concentrated solar • Photovoltaics

  4. Newer Technologies • Solar Thermal Vacuum Tubes • Solar Thermal Troughs • Solar Stirling Engines • Tracking Solar Heliostats • Thin-film Flexible Photovoltaics • Multi-junction Photovoltaics • Vehicle-to-Grid Technologies • Space-based Photovoltaics

  5. Solar Vacuum Tubes (water heating)

  6. Trough Concentration (Kramer Junc.)

  7. Concentrated Photovoltaics

  8. Solar Stirling Engine

  9. Tracking Photovoltaic Heliostats

  10. Improving Photovoltaics • First-generation (silicon) • Thin c-Si via epitaxial growth • Crystallized polysilicon layers • Nanoscale silicon • Second-generation (“thin film”) • Less efficient, more flexible and less expensive than 1st gen • CdTe and CIGS • Third-generation • Solar ink, solar dye, conductive plastic

  11. Flexible Thin-Film Photovoltaic

  12. Multi-junction photovoltaic cell Color Film Multi-junction Photovoltaics

  13. Multi-junction Photovoltaics

  14. Multi-junction Photovoltaics

  15. Improved Efficiencies

  16. Photovoltaic Electric Vehicle-to-Grid

  17. Space-based Solar Photovoltaics

  18. For More Information If you have questions, we have answers: • www.need.org – our website • info@need.org – questions about NEED • cturrel@need.org – questions about this workshop • 1-800-875-5029 – NEED main office phone number

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