Entries for Solar Prize Round 1

Hybrid Solar PV/Thermal Generation & Storage

Icarus RT is an award winning, patent pending, low-cost, hybrid solar PV/thermal power boosting and energy storage system for solar power

by Mark Anderson's team

Ei Value® Home Comparison Platform for Solar

Homebuyers can compare homes listed for sale on an energy adjusted basis & see how adding solar at the time of purchase affects their PITI+E

by Jamie Johnson

Analysis , Automation , Electric Vehicle Charging , Energy Access , Energy Storage , Finance , Forecasting , Photovoltaics (PV) , Real Estate with Solar , software , Solar Promotion

Adhesive mounting of solar panels on metal roofs

Low cost concept of rapidly mounting solar panels on commercial metal roofs is proposed for development at CSU's Next Generation PV center.

by Mandar Sunthankar's team

Transforming Windows Into Energy-Producing Assets

NEXT is developing windows that double as solar panels to give solar an aesthetic boost and meet the demands of the market for a good ROI.

by Jeff Horowitz

Observatory style solar tracker

A solar tracker is mounted on a round structure using that structure as the vertical axis around which the solar tracker rotates.

by Jacob Barnes's team

Exclude from Notifications

Multi shape, light solar power constructor. 24/7 work cycle low maintenance required accepts any spectrum radiation

by ulugbek nurmatov

Solar Harvest Supercharged

Holographic imaging eliminates expensive solar trackers by passively concentrating light rays directly into photovoltaic cells or CSP towers

by Doug Poffinbarger

Solar O&M , Solar Tracking

ease of install and smart management development

easy install of lightweight solar panels drop permits, autoclean, upgrade and development iteration of software defined solar hardwares

by Richard Balauro

Mission ARES: Amalgamated Renewable Energy System

Solar panels and wind turbines selectively transfer energy to a pump that activates a cyclical water cycle which creates energy by gravity.

by Jehil Mehta's team

Grid Integration and Modeling

Inovative inexpensive Trough Solar Concentrators

ConSolE owner, inventor, Jeffrey Citron has invented 3 inexpensive trough shaped solar concentrators.

by Trough CSP CPV CPV/T Team

Solar Basket: Universal Solar Bike Upgrade

The simple affordable solar bike upgrading kit.

by Bingxie Zhang

Sun-e-Card: Turning snail mail into clean energy

1. Send traditional mail to build supporter network 2. Develop solar cell that can be delivered in the mail 3. Mail the US made SunECards

Redsand Pivoting Solar Generator System

Redsand Pivoting Solar Generator Systems for African Villages with DC mini-grids.

by Redsand Solar

STracker S1a Elevated Dual-axis Solar Tracker

Dual-axis Tracker takes solar to a new height! 40% better harvest than fixed. Articulates atop a 20' pole to maintain ground use below.

Solid-state Protective Relay & Monitoring System

Device identifies type of fault & string# then opens solid-state breakers to isolate the fault. It outputs an alarm and SCADA data.

by Progressive Power Products llc

Smart Phone App Predicts the Health Of A PV System

The proposed patented product is a smart phone app and accessory that allows to obtain an accurate snapshot "health" metric of a PV system.

by Gregory Smith

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