The DOE SunShot Initiative

Nov 3, 2011 Carbon Cycle 2.0 talk by Ramesh
Director Solar Energy Technologies Program, US Department of Energy

The SunShot Initiative's mission is to develop solar energy technologies through a collaborative national push to make solar Photovoltaic (PV) and Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) energy technologies cost-competitive with fossil fuel based energy by reducing the cost of solar energy systems by ~ 75 percent before 2020. Reducing the total installed cost for utility-scale solar electricity to roughly 6 cents per kilowatt hour (1$/Watt) without subsidies will result in rapid, large-scale adoption of solar electricity across the United States and the world.