SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Energy Materials Network Consortium for Durable Module Materials Program: Design, Testing, and Production of Advanced Materials Innovative Project Opportunity - Solicitation for Letters of Interest
- Notice Date
- 3/14/2017
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Department of Energy, Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (DOE Contractor), National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 15013 Denver West Parkway, Golden, Colorado, 80401, United States
- ZIP Code
- 80401
- Solicitation Number
- RGJ-7-70168
- Point of Contact
- Joann Sheldon,
- E-Mail Address
-
joann.sheldon@nrel.gov
(joann.sheldon@nrel.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Solicitation for Letters of Interest No. RGJ-7-70168 The attached Solicitation for Letters of Interest (SLOI) seeks to achieve the DuraMAT goal of discovering, developing, reducing risk, and enabling the commercialization of new materials and designs for PV modules by bringing together the best of the national lab and university research infrastructure in collaboration with the photovoltaic (PV) and associated supply-chain industries. The main goal of this SLOI is to: • enable US global competitiveness within the renewable energy sector by supporting research and development projects on module materials and designs that improve the performance and lifetime of new materials and designs for PV modules while decreasing the levelized cost of electricity toward the SunShot 2030 goals. This SLOI is limited to efforts focused on the rapid discovery, development, de-risking, and commercialization of new durable materials and designs for PV modules with the potential to improve performance and lifetime while substantially reducing the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE). This SLOI is not for the incremental advancement of existing materials and designs, nor is it for the advancement of the solar cell device technologies contained within the PV module. The following is a summary of relevant technical areas provided as a non-exhaustive list of potential research directions that could be supported through this DuraMAT SLOI. Opportunities for module innovation to reduce LCOE include but are not limited to: • Module components that increase performance (i.e., energy output over the module lifetime), durability, and/or safety • Module components that reduce manufacturing costs while maintaining or improving durability and performance • Module components that ensure durability while being more easily recycled • Processes, components or module designs that improve the ability and/or decrease the cost to recycle PV modules • Module materials and coatings enabling extended temperature operation • Increased durability of module-level power electronics packaging materials that would improve system reliability • Determination and validation of methods for accelerated and/or combinatorial material or component durability and stability testing • Studies that connect combinatorial and/or accelerated testing of materials to field failure modes • Studies relating field performance data to module material or component failure detection and characterization • Development of test methods, instrumentation and/or protocols that facilitate entry of new PV module materials into the market through demonstrated performance and durability • Development of material qualification tests or the scientific foundation for tests that would improve predictive confidence levels for material reliability and compatibility with 35-50 year module lifetime • Studies that expand the existing knowledge base about the physics, chemistry, and materials science of highly accelerated lifetime testing of materials and result in more accurate or fewer required tests • Studies that leverage the data hub and use of data analytics to identify degradation mechanisms • Data standardization ideas that enable or accelerate data analytics capabilities Specific module materials and components of interest include but are not limited to: • Advanced multi-functional anti-reflective and anti-soiling coatings • Flexible packaging, moisture barriers, and low-cost alternative substrates • Advanced encapsulants, edge seals, front sheets, and back sheets • Novel metal pastes, solders, interconnect materials, interconnection ribbons, conductive adhesives • Alternatives for non-framed and/or framing material and equivalent functional approaches for robust, durable mounting systems and reliable junction box or interconnection wiring • Materials with modified thermal or electrical conductivities to reduce the operational temperature or likelihood of potential induced degradation (PID) or similar effects resulting from leakage currents, grounding, or floating wiring
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