Product description

Solar hardware covers a wide range of technology, from individual components of a solar panel or concentrating solar power plant, to inverters that allow solar panels to feed energy back into the electricity grid, to the racking structures found on rooftops and utility-scale solar installations. The Manufacturing and Competitiveness team works with awardees to determine the best applications for the specific hardware, develop it from a concept into a prototype, test its ability to function in real-world settings, and create a path to the market so the hardware can play a critical role in reducing the cost of solar-generated electricity.