SunShot Grand Challenge Agenda Released
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Energy Secretary Steven Chu is scheduled to speak on the first day of the SunShot Grand Challenge. Photo from Ken Shipp/DOE
An expanded agenda for the two-day SunShot Grand Challenge: Summit and Technology Forum is now available online. Highlights include:
- A technology showcase with poster presentations and hands-on demonstrations from more than 200 SunShot-funded projects on Wednesday, June 13
- A series of focused breakout sessions, including a financing session with a panel of experts evaluating 5-minute elevator pitches, on Thursday, June 14.
Additional details are available on the SunShot Grand Challenge website.
How-To Guides Encourage Growth of Solar Communities
The SunShot Initiative has updated two popular publications with more recent case studies, fresher statistics, and the newest legislation. A Guide to Community Solar shows how renters, condo owners, and those whose rooftops are not suitable for solar can participate in a collective PV system—the “one system, many people” approach. Its sister publication, The Solarize Guidebook, offers advice for getting a volume discount by making group purchases of rooftop solar through a coordinated neighborhood program—the “many systems, many people” approach.
Shade Simulation Test Developed for Solar Arrays
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released a new repeatable test protocol that simulates shade conditions to more accurately predict the effects of shading on a solar array. The DOE-funded research also demonstrated that microinverters can help mitigate the impacts of heavy shading conditions by improving system performance by more than 12%
.Fast Fact: Make Your Grand Challenge Reservations Now!
A limited number of group-rate rooms will be available at the Hyatt Regency Denver through Tuesday, May 22, for SunShot Grand Challenge attendees.