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Entries for Solar Prize Round 2
PV and Agriculture
We use the interior of a PV array as a greenhouse for PV electricity generation and food production on the same land. See our prototype.
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Finley Shapiro
Commercializing Printed Solar Energy
SolarCube is striving to become a leader in the design and manufacturing of printed nanotechnology solar devices.
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Jeff Croisetiere's team
Tensile Based Large Aperture Parabolic Trough
A tensile based large aperture parabolic trough is proposed. The concept will be evaluated in collaboration with Sandia Nat'l Labs.
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Team Skysun
SolPavers-Elegant, Invisible, Low-cost, Safe Solar
SolPavers are sunlight permeable, high-strength, composite concrete and resin patio and path pavers that produce power & look conventional.
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Joe Byles's team
CSP Unit for Building Heating and Steam Generation
This CSP apparatus was designed to generate heat and steam in non-tropical environments, possibly even in cold weather.
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Samuel Harriat
Big Opportunities with Micro Solar Manufacturing
A micro solar manufacturing system that cuts, assembles and encapsulates small scale solar panels for small electronics solutions.
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Fred Briggs
Solar Panel Mounting System for Huge Cost Savings
The Synergy system is a new way to allow the installation of solar panels as a single axis tracker at hugely reduced cost.
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Nathan Myers
Tracking Solar Concentrator w/ Wavelength Shifter
Apparatus to boost the power output of PV panels by increasing the collection area, wavelength-shifting and tracking the sun.
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Timothy Dague's team
Cost-effective Commercial Solar
Taka will make integrated solar panels and mounts for flat roofs which install 4 times faster and weigh half as much to optimize cost.
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Taka Solar
Captain
Apivoltaic Beehive that generates renewable solar energy, honey, and pollinator habitat at utility scale solar sites in Oregon and beyond.
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John Jacob's team
Adhesive installation of panel racks on metal roof
An economical, quick method of bonding solar panel mounting racks with acceptable adhesive strength to metal roof has been demonstrated.
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Mandar Sunthankar's team
NEC PV Rapid Shutdown without module electronics
2017 NEC has one way to avoid module level electronics to comply with rapid shutdown rooftop requirements, which requires no exposed metal.
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Sean White's team
Solar Dock
What if every dock, in every seaport in the world, is converted into a solar farm? This is the goal of Solar Dock.
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Mike Thomas
Back-contacted silicon modules at the cost of PERC
Interconnection technology that uses Al foil to finally make modules with back-contacted silicon cells mass manufacturable.
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Sunflex Solar
A practical way to double the output of PV modules
By combining the best of ground and space PV technology, we can most efficiently harvest sunlight and lower the cost of solar electricity
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Roger Angel's team
pop-up solar classroom
A modular pop-up classroom, similar to a pergola, with solar panels on the roof to charge phones and provide shade to improve learning.
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Madison Cooper's team
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