Investment at the Arizona's Solar Technology Institute.
Science Foundation Arizona, a non-profit organization that helps to diversify the state's economy, is creating the Solar Technology Institute (STI) with a $4 million investment. The new partnership of universities and energy industries will launch five solar R&D projects, says STI co-director Dick Powell. One of the project leaders, Roger Angel, a University of Arizona astronomer and optical scientist, will hire about six researchers to produce commercially viable satellite-based reflectors to concentrate sunlight onto photovoltaic cells. Other projects will focus on the use of nanotechnology in energy storage, smart-grid management and reduction of photovoltaic-cell cost.
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Solar R&D in Arizona. Nature 458, 1207 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nj7242-1207d
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