The DOE SunShot Initiative

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Channel: Berkeley Lab · 2011 · Science & Technology

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Nov 3, 2011 Carbon Cycle 2.0 talk by Ramesh
Director Solar Energy Technologies Program, US Department of Energy

The SunShot Initiative's mission is to develop solar energy technologies through a collaborative national push to make solar Photovoltaic (PV) and Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) energy technologies cost-competitive with fossil fuel based energy by reducing the cost of solar energy systems by ~ 75 percent before 2020. Reducing the total installed cost for utility-scale solar electricity to roughly 6 cents per kilowatt hour (1$/Watt) without subsidies will result in rapid, large-scale adoption of solar electricity across the United States and the world.

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