The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has released a new round of funding for its SunShot Initiative, which aims to drive solar energy to be cost-competitive with other energy sources by 2020.
Among the awardees was a Tucson firm:
REhnu Inc., based in Tucson, will receive $1 million for concentrated PV (CPV) technology that is readying for commercial production. The technology incorporates “large glass dish reflectors, each with a compact array of CPV cells at its focus, making it economical to build systems with an extended 40-year lifetime and maintain high power output by swapping in new cells as multi-junction technology improves,” the DOE explains.