CSI RD&D

Second Solicitation Funded Projects

The second CSI RD&D grant solicitation sought to fund projects that would improve PV production technologies and lead to innovative new business models. It focused on the following target areas:

  1. Testing and demonstration of new solar technologies with improved performance/reliability or lower costs.
  2. Testing and demonstration of innovative business models that help support expansion of cost-competitive solar technologies by reducing costs or increasing value of the solar system to owners or utilities.

On September 2, 2010, the CPUC announced that nine projects were approved to receive funding through the second solicitation. (Read the CPUC press release.) A list of those projects is shown below. Click on the title to see an overview of the project, status, key deliverables and contact information.

Project Title Awardee
Testing and Demonstration of New Solar Technologies
PV and Advanced Energy Storage for Demand Reduction SunPower Corporation
Improved Cost, Reliability, and Grid Integration of High Concentration PV Systems Amonix, Inc.
Solaria: Proving Performance of the Lowest Cost PV System Solaria Corporation
Testing and Demonstration of Innovative Business Models
Innovative Business Models, Rates and Incentives that Promote Integration of High Penetration PV with Real-Time Management of Customer Sited Distributed Energy Resources Viridity Energy
Low-Cost, Smart-Grid Ready Solar Re-Roof Product Enables Residential Solar Energy Efficiency ConSol
Cross Cutting
West Village Energy Initiative: CSI RD&D Project University of California, Davis
Advanced Grid-Interactive Distributed PV and Storage SolarCity
Reducing California PV Balance of System Costs by Automating Array Design, Engineering and Component Delivery SunLink Corporation
Improved Manufacturing and Innovative Business Models to Accelerate Commercialization in California of Hybrid Concentrating PV/Thermal Tri-Generation (CPV/T-3G) Technology Cogenra

 

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