Materials to play vital role in US-India solar technology consortium
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Materials to play vital role in US-India solar technology consortium www.seriius.org
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o expand clean energy research, development, and deployment, the United States (US) and India announced plans in 2010 for a USD$125 million Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center (JCERDC). In April 2012, the US and India announced lead institutions for consortia in each of JCERDC’s three focus areas of solar technology, building efficiency, and advanced biofuels. Research and development work, much of which will advance materials research in solar technology, is expected to begin this fall. Each consortium has an institutional lead in India and in the US, as well as multiple university, national laboratory, and private industry partners. The gov-
ernments of India and the United States have each pledged USD$5 million per year for five years to the JCERDC effort in their own country, pending appropriations. Consortia members are providing an additional USD$75 million in matching funds. The solar technology consortium, named the Solar Energy Research Institute for India and the United States—or SERIIUS—will be led in India by the Indian Institute of Science-Bangalore (IISc) and in the US by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). SERIIUS aims to develop and ready emerging revolutionary solar electricity technologies in order to help India meet its Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar En-
Solar panels on the roof of the Confederation of Indian Industry’s Godrej Green Business Center in Hyderabad. Credit: Natural Resources Defense Council
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ergy Mission, which includes installing 20,000 MW of solar grid power by 2022 as one of its goals, and to support the US Department of Energy (DOE) SunShot Initiative, whose goal is to reduce the cost of installed solar-energy systems by 75% by the end of the decade. The SERIIUS team includes nearly 30 collaborators from national laboratories, universities, and private industry. Over the next five years, SERIIUS will invest more than USD$58 million in its mission to advance solar energy technology, USD$25 million shared equally by the US and India, pending appropriations, and the remainder in matching funds from consortium members. To help the two countries meet their solar energy goals, SERIIUS is focusing on three research thrusts: sustainable photovoltaics (PV); multiscale concentrated solar power; and integrating solar energy into India’s technical, economic, environmental, and political landscape. The overarching goal of the project is to quickly lower the cost per watt of power in support of the national solar energy plans, according to NREL’s Larry Kazmerski, who co-directs the center along with IISc-Bangalore’s Kamanio Chattopadhyay. Kazmerski said, “SERIIUS positions the technical communities of our two countries to strengthen these national programs. But it also revolutionizes the way we approach research with truly collaborative, jointly led research and development. The accomplishments will be g
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