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The Solar Energy Technologies Office Getting to Ubiquitous Solar

The Solar Energy Technologies Office Getting to Ubiquitous Solar. Minh Le, Director Solar Energy Technologies Office. SunShot. Price. SunShot Initiative. SunShot Initiative. 5 - 6¢/kwh without subsidy A 75% cost reduction by the end of the decade.

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The Solar Energy Technologies Office Getting to Ubiquitous Solar

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  1. The Solar Energy Technologies OfficeGetting to Ubiquitous Solar Minh Le, Director Solar Energy Technologies Office

  2. SunShot Price SunShot Initiative SunShot Initiative 5 - 6¢/kwh without subsidy A 75% cost reduction by the end of the decade

  3. If moonshot was a race away from our planet, SunShot, in a way, is a race to save our planet. -Ali Zaidi, Domestic Policy Council

  4. SunShot Initiative – Solar Grid Parity by 2020 2010 2013 2020 MAJOR PROGRESS PRIORITY AREAS 60% progress towards 2020 objectives

  5. SunShot Utility Scale Progress Q42013 Sources: Margolis , R., et al. (2012). "SunShot Vision Study." DOE/GO-102012-3037. Golden, CO: National Renewable Energy Laboratory, pp. 265. Accessed 2013: http://www1.eere.energy.gov/solar/pdfs/47927_appendices.pdf; Goodrich, A; James, T; and Woodhouse, M. “Residential, Commercial, and Utility-Scale Photovoltaic System Prices in the United States: Current Drivers and Cost Reduction Opportunities.” NREL Technical Report No. TP-6A20-53347, Available Online at: www.nrel.gov/docs/fy12osti/53347.pdf . ; NREL internal (PV system cost) analysis (September 2013).

  6. PV Module Prices Reaching $.50/W could take until 2030 for Si modules*

  7. SunShot Initiative – Solar Grid Parity by 2020 2010 2013 2020 MAJOR PROGRESS PRIORITY AREAS • 15 GW of solar • 4.75 GW PV in 2013 • 10x growth rate from 2009

  8. SunShot Initiative – Solar Grid Parity by 2020 2010 2013 2020 MAJOR PROGRESS PRIORITY AREAS Jobs: 143,000

  9. SunShot Initiative – Solar Grid Parity by 2020 2010 2013 2020 MAJOR PROGRESS PRIORITY AREAS Sunshot incubator $18 Private for every $1 Public

  10. SunShot Initiative – Solar Grid Parity by 2020 2010 2013 2020 MAJOR PROGRESS PRIORITY AREAS SOFT COSTS

  11. SunShot Initiative – Solar Grid Parity by 2020 2010 2013 2020 MAJOR PROGRESS PRIORITY AREAS GRID INTEGRATION

  12. SunShot Initiative – Solar Grid Parity by 2020 2010 2013 2020 MAJOR PROGRESS PRIORITY AREAS CSP STORAGE s-CO2

  13. SunShot Initiative – Solar Grid Parity by 2020 2010 2013 2020 MAJOR PROGRESS PRIORITY AREAS MANUFACTURING COMPETITIVENESS

  14. Erosion of Domestic PV cell and Module Manufacturing 42% 2%

  15. Manufacturing • “Abandoning today's ‘commodity’ manufacturing can lock you out of tomorrow's emerging industry.” • Andy Grove, co-founder, former CEO, Intel

  16. The SunShot Portfolio

  17. Focus areas: Solar Field Receiver Thermal fluid/storage Power Block Has led to commercialization of the largest CSP plants in the world Concentrating Solar Power Dr. Ranga Pitchumani

  18. 2010 & 2013 CSP Baselines and SunShot Goal Note: assumes no ITC. $2013 converted to $2010 using the “Chemical Engineering Plant Cost Index.“ • 8 ¢/kWh reduction in LCOE (38%) from 2010 to 2013 • An additional 7 ¢/kWh (54%) LCOE reduction still necessary to achieve SunShot goals

  19. Photovoltaics R&DDr. Rebecca Jones-Albertus • Focus areas: • New types of materials and device approaches that enable higher PV performance, greater reliability and reduced cost • Translational research and development to bridge gaps in applied research with those in device and materials development and manufacturing environment • Has resulted in US leadership in PV R&D • Over 50% of the world record solar cell efficiencies have been supported by DOE funded researchers • Supported the technology that is the foundation many companies in the industry such as First Solar, SunPower, Suniva

  20. World Record Cell Efficiencies

  21. Innovations in Manufacturing R&D (Tech to Market)Dr. Lidija Sekaric • Focus areas: • Competitiveness Analysis • Translating technology from the laboratory to the marketplace • Manufacturing R&D to enable US companies to compete globally • Resulted in tremendous returns on US tax dollars (>$1.7B) Long-Run U.S. Manufacturing Opportunities

  22. SolarMAT: Manufacturing and Supply Chain Technology R&D • High Impact Technologies • Technologies which provide cost reductions and performance improvements with broad application across the industry • Strengthen the domestic PV industry • Technologies developed under this program can be adopted directly into current manufacturing processes

  23. Systems Integration R&DDr. Ranga Pitchumani

  24. Maybe replace with slide on SEGIS AC Field Validation of PV Systems Moderate to high precipitation; harsh winter conditions, low DNI High altitude, temperate climate Subtropical; high DNI; high temperatures Hot, humid, (subtropical conditions); moderate DNI Hot and arid high DNI.

  25. Today’s Power System … Two Way Power Flow Generation-Transmission Substation Distribution System Source: NREL-Coddington modified Alvin R.

  26. Developing technology to better integrate solar with the grid

  27. Today’s Power System … Two Way Power Flow Generation-Transmission Substation Distribution System Source: NREL-Coddington modified Alvin R.

  28. PV System Pathway to SunShot Residential

  29. Unlike physics, where we can fundamentally figure out the upper limit for the efficiency of solar cells, there is no such limit to bureaucracy

  30. Rooftop Solar Challenge

  31. Well, let's say you can shave 10 seconds off of the boot time. Multiply that by five million users and that’s 50 million seconds, every single day. Over a year, that's probably dozens of lifetimes. So if you make it boot ten seconds faster, you've saved a dozen lives. That's really worth it, don't you think?

  32. 22 Rooftop Solar Challenge Teams Cut red tape by 1 week 600 MW installed 40,000 installations 40,000 weeks of red tape = 768 Years of red tape

  33. Minh LeDirectorSolar Energy Technologies Office SunShot Initiativeminh.le@ee.doe.gov

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