DOE recently removed all references to SunShot on its main solar and renewable energy office webpages, including taking down a large "SunShot 2030" banner. Former SunShot Director Charlie Gay now ...

This, the DOE hopes, should help the U.S. regain its position as a worldwide leader in solar technologies. The SunShot Initiative aims to reduce the total cost of solar energy systems by roughly ...

Talking with reporters after his speech, Moniz described the SunShot Initiative as one of the most crucial pieces of the DOE's solar strategy. "There are lot of new ideas -- not only on the ...

The DOE’s plan could, then, make solar just as attractive as coal. The SunShot initiative will focus on improving four areas: solar cell technology, electronics to optimize solar system ...

SUNPATH is the second phase of the Photovoltaic Manufacturing Initiative (PVMI), which, in turn, is part of the DOE’s SunShot Initiative. Got all that? Over the course of the next two years ...

The Department of Energy (DOE) SunShot Program has a specific goal: to move the cost of solar-energy-generated electricity to be competitive, without subsidies, with the cost of fossil-fuel ...

The program, which launched in February, has already awarded millions of dollars for specific SunShot goals: This latest round of funding through the DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and ...

In 2011, DOE launched the SunShot Initiative – with the goal of making solar electricity cost-competitive with traditional energy sources without subsidies by 2020. DOE says that through the ...

WASHINGTON, May 26, 2016 - Since the Energy Department (DOE) launched the SunShot Initiative in 2011 with a goal of making solar electricity cost-competitive with traditional sources of ...

The DOE noted that the average retail price of electricity in the U.S. is 12 cents per kWh. That said, utility-scale solar electricity doesn’t really compete with retail electricity (whereas ...

Funded by the DOE SunShot Initiative, a research team from Purdue aims to test the material limitations of critical components often found in large-scale solar power plants. The "power tower" system, ...

The SunShot Initiative, part of the DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, seeks to reduce the cost of solar electricity to be competitive with other energy sources by the end of the ...