Materials from 2014 SunShot Summit BREAKOUT SESSION: LOOKING FORWARD: THE SOLAR MARKET IN 2040

Solar Energy Technologies Office

July 29, 2014
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This breakout session at the 2014 SunShot Grand Challenge Summit and Peer Review envisioned what solar technologies would compose the marketplace in 25 years. Will silicon PV still dominate, or will other technologies become more prominent? How much differentiation by sector segment will we see? Panelists discussed their vision for the future of solar technology, as well as how this vision should affect research and development investments made today.

SPEAKERS:
  • Atiye Bayman, Chief Technology Officer, Miasole
  • Tonio Buonassisi, Associate Professor, MIT
  • Cliff Ho, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories
  • Christiana Honsberg, Professor, Arizona State University
  • Greg Wilson, Director, National Center for Photovoltaics, NREL

Download the presentations below.