The Department of Energy has stopped calling its solar arm the “SunShot Initiative” and is weighing an overhaul to a key solar competition, prompting new worries about the Trump administration’s ...

The “free” power of the sun has given hope to renewable energy investors but until now solar power hasn’t been able to compete head-to-head with most traditional power generation technologies. But ...

WASHINGTON, September 20, 2017 - DOE’s SunShot Initiative intends to release a funding opportunity for solar desalination technology on or about Sept. 25. Rather than using high-value electricity as ...

Steve Chu, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, and Dick Swanson, founder of SunPower (Nasdaq: SPWRA) (now on his victory lap), joined on a conference call Friday morning to herald the DOE's ...

Rhone Resch listened carefully today as Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced "SunShot," a new federal initiative with the ambitious goal of reducing the total cost of photovoltaic (PV) solar power ...

The University of Delaware’s Institute of Energy Conversion (IEC) has been awarded $2.1 million from the U.S. Department of Energy SunShot Initiative for two research projects aiming to improve the ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Vice President Joe Biden is announcing Wednesday (Sept. 16) that Purdue University has received an advanced U.S. Department of Energy research award to improve concentrating ...

Latest solar electricity initiative follows up $112.5 million award and Sematech collaboration with a $170 million funding program. The US Department of Energy (DOE) is to make nearly $170 million ...