Entries for Solar Prize Round 1

Omnisole- 3X FASTER INSTALL! No Roof Penetrations!

Our ballasted PV mounting system can be installed on sloped roofs, eliminating the need for roof penetrations, with 3x faster install times!

by Team Omnisole

Factory Installed Solar for Manufactured Homes

Pilot Phase Testing of Cleverly Designed Power Integration for a New Wave of American Home Buyers

by Phase3 Photovoltaics

Community Solar , Finance , Permitting & Standardization , Photovoltaics (PV)

Acoustic Cleaving of GaAs for Next Generation PV

Dramatically reducing substrate cost and reuse for GaAs based solar cells through a novel wafering technology

by Team ASU / Crystal Sonic

Perovskite + silicon tandem product prototype

Creating a new type of solar product to realize a new generation of high-efficiency low-cost solar

by Tandem PV Inc

3-Port Power Conversion System for Solar and ESS

Highly compact and Integrated 3-port power conversion systems to address the need of next generation 1500 V solar and Energy Storage Systems

by Ajith Wijenayake's team

"Making energy more accessible than ever."

Solar SEED is a flexible, scalable, affordable solution for Basic Energy Access, while making Off-Grid Energy Systems more resilient.

Breakthrough PV cell & module architecture

C3 increases power and reduces hotspots and shading impacts. It works with PERC, HJT, BSF, bi-facial and nearly all module assembly lines.

by Solar Inventions Team

ARAYSTAYS non-invasive solar attachment method

ARAYSTAYS eliminates the need for roof penetrations while maintaining a secure attachment method for solar arrays on residential rooftops.

Translucent Solar Panel for Greenhouse Farming

This solar module lets visible light passing through for photosynthesis while capturing additional IR light to boost electricity generation

by Wei Pan's team

Utility-Owned Battery

Customers get back-up power for free by simply plugging their solar modules into the utility's grid-connected inverter and battery.

Our Mission: Accelerate rooftop solar by offering a plug-in “solar appliance”, sold in $465 increments, each paying back in 4 years.

by Team Catalyst

Solar Guardian Connectors

24/7 Solar Electrical Fire and DC Arc-Fault Pre-Detection

by Solar Guardian

High Capacity 250 kW SiC Solar String Inverter

Transforming the string inverter market with disruptive Silicon Carbide – based Composite Architectures

by BREK Electronics