Entries for Solar Prize Round 1

A solar-powered panic button that sends an alert to the user’s preset emergency contacts when triggered.

by Jasmine Vital's team

Reflective Solar Tracker to Market

New tracker design called Reflective Solar Tracker that delivers 40 to 50 percent more energy annually.

by james loven's team

An Innovative Approach to Expand Solar’s Utilization

by Jennie Yoshimoto

RoofTrack: new paradigm in energy harvesting

Bring the power of tracking and enhanced bifacial gain through design to rooftop solar systems.

by Pawan Kapur's team

Self-Contained Off-grid Operations Technology

Demonstrate a cost-effective, stand-alone solar-based prototype that produces electricity, captures heat, and purifies water—operating 24/7.

by Evelyne Conlon's team

Three-port SiC based HF power Conversion system

An energy efficient and economical decentralized modular next generation power electronics/enrgy storage system for 1500 VDC PV systems

by Ajith Wijenayake's team

Power Wearables Anytime Anywhere

By using a 3D additive manufacturing approach, we propose to make light-weight, flexible solar cells which could power wearable devices

Concentrated and Non-Concentrated hybrid PV

Specular reflective PV cell generates electricity high-energy photons reflects low energy photons like mirror.

Community Solar , Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) , CSP Collectors , Energy Access , Solar Tracking

Building Integrated Hydronic Solar Heating/Cooling

Adding night sky radiative cooling to augment AC systems as a secondary function to metal roofing integrated solar thermal collectors

by Jessica Mulcahy's team

Personalize Payback Amounts

Using cell phones to simplify solar panel cost analysis and payback forecasting.

by Team Actionable

Wind-Driven Solar Panel Cleaning Device

MoreSolar utilizes wind power as a novel method to clean solar panels and maximize solar energy production.

Solar Module Assembler

Design and develop a solar module assembling equipment that will simplify the process of assembling a solar panel.

by Nathanael Florestal's team

A Business Approach to Stabilized Perovskites

How smart, modular, solar household batteries can pave the way for stabilized perovskite solar panels.

by Epic Battery

SolarStax® Imagine Vertical Solar Anywhere

Solar cells optimized for vertical east/west fashion controlled by AI can provide renewable energy needed for microgrids of the future.

Invisible metal contacts for solar cells

ETC Solar, LLC is commercializing world’s highest performing front contact technology for solar cells: ETC superstrates.

Thermally Integrated Photovoltaic Power Systems

A heat-sink photovoltaic/battery mounting system increases weather resilience, efficiency, system lifetime, and reduces system cost.

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