21st Century Solar Power and Photovoltaics: Energy Department Multi-year Program Plan through 2012 for Solar Development and Research, Systems, Materials, CSP Technologies

This ebook provides a reproduction of the Department of Energy the 2008-2012 Multi-Year Program Plan for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Energy Technologies Program (Solar Program). The Solar Program is responsible for carrying out the Federal role in researching, developing, demonstrating and deploying solar energy technologies. This document presents a look inside the Solar Program’s plans for the next five years, as well as areas of work that are emphasized. The Solar Program is driven by the Solar America Initiative (SAI), a Presidential initiative launched in 2007 with the goal of achieving grid-parity for solar electricity produced by photovoltaic (PV) systems across the nation by 2015 - making the SAI a nine-year effort. This plan covers years two through six of the SAI, which can be considered the core of the initiative. The activities covered within this plan highlight what efforts the Solar Program will undertake to reach the SAI goal. During the first year of the SAI, the Solar Program was able to lay the initial foundation for success through aggressive research and development (R&D) efforts in collaboration with private industry and national laboratories, and expanded that effort to universities in early 2008. Simultaneously, the program launched a groundbreaking market transformation effort to help commercialize solar technologies by targeting and eliminating market barriers to solar energy, as well as promoting deployment opportunities, through partnerships with cities, companies, non-profits, and universities. The 2008-2012 activities detailed herein build off of these early successes of the SAI. Several areas of emphasis characterize the 2008-2012 timeframe:
Fully incorporating concentrating solar power (CSP) efforts into the SAI.
Improving storage technologies for both CSP and PV technologies.
Better integrating solar technologies into the electric grid, in both distributed and centralized generation applications. Contents include:
Solar Program Mission, Vision, Design, Program Structure, Logic, Photovoltaics, PV Systems and Module Development, Materials and Cell Technologies, Technology Testing and Evaluation, Grid and Building Integration, Concentrating Solar Power, Market Transformation, Partnerships with Other Programs, Acronyms.

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