RESEARCH FUNDED BY THE CALIFORNIA SOLAR INITIATIVE'S RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, DEMONSTRATION AND DEPLOYMENT PROGRAM CREATING A SUSTAINABLE SOLAR INDUSTRY BY 2016

摘要

The California Solar Initiative (CSI) Research, Development, Demonstration and Deployment Program (RD&D) has a budget of $50 million and provides grant funding to help build a sustainable and self-supporting industry for customer-sited solar in California and to further the CSI goal of 3,000 MW of installed capacity by the end of 2016. To date, the program has conducted two grant solicitations and made 18 awards for a total of $33 million. The research focus areas include grid integration of high penetration PV, improving solar technologies and innovative business models. This paper will provide information on each of the research projects including goals, approach, outcomes and key deliverables. The projects are a multi-faceted approach to meeting the goals of the CSI program as well as achieving wide-spread adoption of solar in the future years. The projects funded by the CSI RD&D program are addressing the market and technical barriers to achieving lower cost and higher performing solar systems.