The Future of Photovoltaics Manufacturing in the United States Summary of Two Symposia (2011) / Chapter Skim
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Panel II: Advancing Solar Technologies: The Department of Energy
Panel II: Advancing Solar Technologies: The Department of Energy
Pages 145-160
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• Building a world-class workforce for a sustainable green economy. She noted that her own particular passion, derived from her background in academia, was to educate the workforce, and emphasized the potential for renewable technologies to create new jobs and an educated workforce.
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She said her office was trying to create a framework that can integrate energy policy, science, and technology goals in an energy technology roadmap. This roadmap will have quantitative goals, on-ramps, and off-ramps "as we find technologies that can get us to the President's objectives." She said that one feature of this work is to assemble the interesting roadmaps that already existed and "put them all into the same units.
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This is distinguished by the author from the traditional dichotomy of "basic" and "applied" research, a dichotomy popularized just after World War II by Vannevar Bush in his report to President Truman, Science: The Endless Frontier. Vannevar Bush, Science: The Endless Frontier, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1945.
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This might be displayed in the diagram between vector editable basic and use-inspired research. If basic research, R01568 in the upper left, is represented by blue, and use-inspired research, in the upper right, is red, transistor technology might fit in a new square colored magenta.
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As applications research continues, she said, the technology moves downward through Pasteur's quadrant where the Energy Hubs are located in Dr. Johnson's diagram.
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Of the 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers funded in 2009, 6 were solar technology centers. When ARPA-e solicited white papers on energy needs, solar 6 Niels Reimers founded Stanford's Office of Technology Licensing in 1970, which became a model for other universities.
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The majority of that amount is available for SBIR grants, she said, "and I want to encourage people in the PV area to apply for that funding." DOE SOLAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES PROGRAM: ACCELERATING THE U.S. SOLAR INDUSTRY John Lushetsky Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary U.S.
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"That is a slightly slippery concept," he said, "because it depends on a number of conditions, including financing terms, market pull, and local solar conditions." But he said that the DoE sees multiple technology pathways to meet this goal. The aim of the program is to allocate funds so as to maximize and accelerate market penetration.
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Lushetsky turned to the Technology Pathway Partnerships (TPP) , which are designed to promote assessments of the life cycle costs of the total PV system, with the immediate goal of driving down costs in dollars per kilowatt-hour.
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By supporting projects that tap significant expertise from related fields, it tries to develop and optimize technologies for PV. Finally, by emphasizing near-term technologies that can be inserted into current manufacturing processes, it hopes to accelerate progress toward grid parity.
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program. The initial tool for doing this is a Technology Commercialization Fund to help national laboratories move their promising technologies across a gap between research activities and later stage funding.
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is uneditable bitmapped image recipient of this funding so far has been the solar energy R01568 sector. Ampulse Corporation is one example, which was formed to commercialize technology developed at both NREL and Oak Ridge.
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The DoE and the IRS partnered to implement this program although the funding would not show up on the DoE site, even though it will support renewable energy technologies. It is the 48C Manufacturing Tax Credit, funded for $2.3 billion in the form of 30 percent tax credits to be taken over ten years.
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Lushetsky whether the DoE might better help reduce costs by a national procurement strategy than by some recent programs, such as grants in lieu of tax credits.8 "If we buy $26 billion worth of PV and put them on every government installation, how much can that drive down the cost of producing these technologies, as opposed to other programs? " No Single Strategy Mr.
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Battershell cited two other examples of interagency cooperation, which she called "a bit of a forced marriage with some Recovery Act funding." One was the grant in lieu of tax credits program, managed by the Treasury Department with DoE technical expertise. The second was the manufacturing tax credit
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Wessner encouraged the DoE to make more use of the SBIR program. Although the DoE had led the government in working with small companies that responded to SBIR solicitations, he encouraged DoE to do additional solicitations for firms wishing to use technology that was already in DoE labs.
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