The three-year DOE grant will help fund a $22.4m program that brings together leaders from across the entire solar value chain.
The solar value chain includes solar solutions providers, national laboratories, universities, leading electronics companies and national home builders to create a new solar technology that reduces total installation costs and provide reliable, low-cost solar energy to residential consumers.
Dow Solar’stransformational approach to reducing the total system costs of building integrated photovoltaics program provides sustainable and innovative solutions that will develop new materials and designs to enable the integration of lightweight and robust BIPV shingles.
Dow Solar calculates its BIPV system will significantly reduce the installed cost to meet the DOE target of $2/W without subsidies, the company claimed.
