DOE to Provide Up to $17.6 Million for Solar Photovoltaic Technology Development
The U.S. Department of Energy today announced up to $17.6 million, subject to annual appropriations, for six early stage photovoltaic module incubator projects that focus on the initial manufacturing of advanced solar PV technologies.(...) Upon negotiation of their subcontracts through DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the following six companies will begin their 18-month projects:

• 1366 Technologies - new cell architecture [for] low-cost multi-crystalline silicon cells
• Innovalight- very high-efficiency, low-cost solar cells and modules by ink-jet printing their proprietary “silicon ink” onto thin-crystalline silicon wafers
• Skyline Solar - integrated lightweight, single-axis tracked system (...) 10X onto silicon cells
• Solasta - novel cell design based on an amorphous-silicon “nanocoax” structure
• Solexel - high efficiency mono-crystalline silicon cell technology
• Spire Semiconductor - three-junction tandem solar cells by growing differentiated bi-facial cells on a Gallium Arsenide substrate