Thursday, 29 April 2021 A team of researchers from Utah State University were named one of 10 finalists in the fourth round of the nationwide American-Made Solar Prize competition.
Supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the American-Made Solar Prize is a $3 million prize competition designed to transform the best ideas around solar into technology solutions that are ready for market. Last year, 121 teams submitted ideas to this three-stage competition. In December, 20 semifinalist teams were selected to move on in the competition. And on April 9, the ten finalist teams were announced, each earning a $100,000 cash prize, $75,000 in technical support funding, and a spot to compete in the final contest this September.
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Led by Founder and CEO Alexander Orlov, PhD, a Professor of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering in the College of Engineering and Applied Science, Superclean Glass has created an electro-dynamic shield that repels dust from solar panels. The process can save up to 98 percent of the energy typically lost on panels subjected to the outdoors, often in dusty regions.
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Superclean Glass, housed at the Long Island High Tech Incubator, is one of only three companies in New York State named as a finalist for the DOE American-Made Solar Prize and the only one from Long Island. The team of inventors also includes Stony Brook PhD candidate Shrish Patel; Victor Veerasamy, PhD, a world expert on glass and coatings, and Research Professor of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering; and Jim Smith.
STONY BROOK, NY, April 15, 2021 – SuperClean Glass, Inc., a company that uses a solar panel-cleaning technology developed at Stony Brook University and a start-up mentored by the Clean Energy Business Incubator Program (CEBIP) at Stony Brook, has been named a finalist in the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) American-Made Solar Prize for 2021. Superclean Glass was one of 10 companies named as finalists and will receive a $100,000 prize and an additional $75,000 in DOE vouchers to test their technologies. Led by Founder and CEO Alexander Orlov, PhD, a Professor of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering in the College of Engineering and Applied Science, Superclean Glass has created an electro-dynamic shield that repels dust from solar panels. The process can save up to 98 percent of the energy typically lost on panels subjected to the outdoors, often in dusty regions. The team of inventors also includes Stony Brook PhD candidate Shrish Patel; Victor Veerasamy, PhD, a wor
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