SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Round 2 - Energy Materials Network Consortium for Durable Module Materials Program: Design, Testing, and Production of Advanced Materials and Photovoltaic Modules Innovative Project Opportunity - Solicitation for Letters of Interest
- Notice Date
- 6/7/2018
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 54171
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life SciencesT
- 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-8-82224
- Archive Date
- 1/1/2019
- Point of Contact
- Joann Sheldon, Phone: 303-384-7381, Jeffrey A Soltesz, Phone: 303-384-7409
- E-Mail Address
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joann.sheldon@nrel.gov, jeffrey.soltesz@nrel.gov
(joann.sheldon@nrel.gov, jeffrey.soltesz@nrel.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Solicitation for Letters of Interest (SLOI) No. RGJ-8-82224 Round 2 - Energy Materials Network Consortium for Durable Module Materials Program: Design, Testing, and Production of Advanced Materials and Photovoltaic Modules Innovative Project Opportunity: (Please see Attachments for full SLOI.) The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) works to accelerate the market competitiveness of solar energy technologies by targeting levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) reductions and increased solar deployment. As such, DOE maintains a strong commitment to enhancing U.S. manufacturing competitiveness while advancing the nation's energy goals, boosting the economy, and contributing to energy security. To that end, the DOE strategically rallies experts from across the national laboratories, universities, nonprofit organizations, and private industry around the urgent competitive opportunities for the United States to be the leader in solar energy manufacturing industries and jobs of today and tomorrow. One such area of opportunity is improved US competitiveness through advanced materials research and development. To achieve economic competitiveness within this space, the DOE created the Energy Materials Network (EMN) with the goal of dramatically decreasing the time-to-market for advanced materials that are critical to manufacturing many clean energy technologies, enabling manufacturers of all sizes to develop and deliver innovative, made-in-America products to the world market. Through targeted, national lab-led consortia, EMN leverages federal funding to facilitate industry's access to the unique scientific and technical resources at DOE's national labs in high performance computing, synthesis and characterization of new materials, and high-impact experimentation. Each EMN consortium brings together national labs, industry, and academia to focus on specific classes of materials aligned with industry's most pressing challenges related to materials for clean energy technologies. Together, the EMN consortia form a network of advanced materials R&D capabilities and resources that support American manufacturing and maintaining a competitive edge in the clean energy economy. Additional details on the Energy Materials Network can be found at https://energy.gov/eere/energy-materials-network/energy-materials-network. Within the solar energy industry, there is significant opportunity in developing new materials and designs for more durable photovoltaic (PV) modules to reduce the levelized cost of electricity. In response to this opportunity, the DOE Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) established a national laboratory-led consortium for durable module materials (DuraMAT). The DuraMAT-or Durable Module Materials-Consortium brings together the national lab and university research infrastructure with the photovoltaic (PV) and supply-chain industries to discover, develop, de-risk, and enable the commercialization of new materials and designs for PV modules-with the intent to decrease the levelized cost of electricity toward the SunShot 2030 goals ( https://energy.gov/eere/solar/sunshot-2030 ). DuraMAT aims to accelerate the rate at which companies can implement new materials and designs in PV modules by coupling an Energy Materials Network organizational architecture with PV durability science and state-of-the-art analysis. This means the interaction of rapid discovery, characterization, and testing; theory, modeling, and simulation; and data management and mining, with rapid durability testing, degradation mechanism identification, and lifetime prediction. DuraMAT's research strategy integrates the following capability areas in an innovation engine that accelerates material development, ensures industry engagement, and meets the long- and short-term module materials research needs of the PV industry. Additional details and contact information on these DuraMAT Network Capabilities can be found at https://www.DuraMAT.org. •· Data Management and Analytics •· Predictive Simulation •· Materials Forensics and Characterization •· Module Prototyping and Testing •· Field Testing •· Techno-Economic Analysis Industry and academia are able to engage with DuraMAT National Laboratories, including National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC)), through competitively selected U.S. Department of Energy-funded projects or standard national laboratory partnerships. These partnerships may be as Cooperative Research and Development agreements, SETO Funding Opportunity Announcement awards, Strategic Partnership Projects, or this SLOI. This 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 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 photovoltaic (PV) modules and systems while decreasing the levelized cost of electricity toward the SunShot 2030 goals ( https://energy.gov/eere/sunshot/sunshot-2030 ).
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Offeror's location, United States
- Record
- SN04948066-W 20180609/180607231046-b2dac941d5bac226791f7f77931a54e5 (fbodaily.com)
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