# Presentation: 110468

## SAI PV INCUBATOR

- Net Conference
-  April 10, 2007
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## SAI PV INCUBATOR

- Basic Information for Conference
- Please do not include your company name in your question
- Please do not include proprietary data or business sensitive information in your question
- In order to provide the most accurate information possible, NREL may elect not to provide a response to a question during the net conference, but will respond to the question as part of the LOI amendment, which will be posted at the following website for all interested parties to review: _[www.nrel.gov/business_opportunuties/solicitations_rfps.html](http://www.nrel.gov/business_opportunuties/solicitations_rfps.html)_

## Photovoltaics R&D: DOE Funding Opportunities

## SAI PV Component Incubator LOIKey Information

- SAI PV Component Incubator LOIKey Information

## SAI PV Incubator

**Funding Source:**  **SETP, Photovoltaics Sub-Program**
**Opportunity Description:**
- 	–	Research and Development of PV module prototype with full functionality, 	produced in pilot-scale operations. Proof-of-concept completed for new 	manufacturing processes, through contractor equipment or NREL PDIL 		facilities, with key staff scientists. Address the barriers to entry, with emphasis 	on 2010 commercialization. High Risk R&D subcontracts relative to TPP 	awards.
- 	–	Flexibility with Entrance/Exit, Period of Performance for 18 months. 	**Entrance Criterion:****  **Coupon-scale PV cell or process lab-demonstrated.
**	****	****Successful Exit Criterion:**  Prototype modules and >3 MW/YR pilot production                          demonstration.
- NOTE on Entrance/Exit Criteria: These are flexible guidelines for the stage of technology development to be funded – applying companies may be more advanced than the cited entrance criterion, and may seek to be more advanced at the completion of their projects.

## SAI PV Incubator: Topics 

- Novel wafer-based silicon modules
- Polycrystalline thin films
- Film silicon on a foreign substrate
- High-efficiency cells, including multi-junction, and CPV module concepts
- Organic PV, DSSC’s, or other polymer-based solar cells
- Low-X concentration CPV systems with limited or 1-axis tracking module designs
- Low-X Si modules, 3-10X

- SAI PV Incubator: Topics

## SAI PV Incubator: Mechanism

- Deliverables have dollar amount associated to each.
**Flexible & Cyclical **
- Period of Performance: 18-months
- Exit/entrance every 9-months
- Solicitation open with proposals due every 9-months
**Price Participation: 20%**
- Small Businesses are responders
- Small Businesses, Large Businesses, Non-Profits, and Universities can be lower-tier subcontractors.
**Award amount:**** Anticipated NREL funding not to exceed $3.0 million/award over 18 months (changed from LOI)**
**Entrance Criteria:**** Coupon-Scale PV cell or process lab-demonstrated**
**Website:**** Available to public to stimulate interest every 9-months, **_**[www.nrel.gov/business_opportunutues/solicitations_rfps.html](http://www.nrel.gov/business_opportunutues/solicitations_rfps.html)**_

## Qualitative Merit Criteria for Best Value Selection 

- Quality and Relevance of the Proposed Technical Plan (50%)

- Technical Capability of the Responder/Team (25%)

- Quality and Relevance of the Proposed Business Strategy (25%)

## LOI Response Requirements for Statement of Work 

**Background**
- Summary of the proposed project and how it relates and responds to the PV Technology Incubator solicitation’s objectives
**Objectives**
- Address the technology development pathway for the project over its 18 month duration, includes KPP’s and Stage Gates, with focus on the 2010 commercialization-plan.
**III.** **Scope of Work – Technical/Project Plan**
- Identify specific activities in this section  that are clearly linked to their impact on the identified TIOs and KPPs.
**Project Plan**
- Schedule for each task and subtask activity, as well as a proposed reporting schedule, review schedule, key technical decision point milestones and deliverables.

## Key Performance Parameters

| Metric | Units | Comments |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) | $/kWh | Principle metric that measures degree of competitiveness with conventionally produced electricity |
| Annual manufacturing capacity | MW/yr | MW of annual subsystem and/or component manufacturing capacity in a given year at the target LCOE cost level. Like LCOE, this is a driving metric for SAI. |
| Direct manufacturing cost | $/Wp | This is the direct manufacturing cost of a subsystem and/or component that includes materials, labor, equipment depreciation, facilities costs, etc. |
| PVcomponent performance factor(s) | Unit To Be Determined by Responder | This performance factor(s) should be selected by the TPP to represent the driving contribution to system-level performance that will be provided by the subsystem and/or component they are improving.  For example, a module development project might select the “nameplate” rated power output for the module (Wpdc).  This factor can be calculated on a daily or annual basis, but daily calculations must be averaged over an operating year. This metric is based on performance only, and does not take into account cost or lifetime issues. |
| Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) | Time (hrs) | Expressed as the "average" time between failures for a subsystem and/or component – i.e. the reciprocal of the failure rate in the special case when failure rate is constant. |

**Objectives of SOW**

## EXAMPLE

| STAGE GATE REVIEW PLANNING SHEET |  |  |  |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Incubator Company:  |  |  |  |  |  |
| PI:  |  |  | Ph:  | E-mail:  |  |
| Gate # | Planned Review Date | Criteria                                 (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Timely) | Deliverable | Deliverable Date | How will achieving criteria be demonstrated? |
| 1 | 9-months from project start | 10%, 0.5 sq meter pre-production prototype modules | 4 pre-production modules for test | 8 months after start | Test results from T&E team |
|   |   | Manufacturing line design with equipment ordered | Design Report | 6 months after start | Report will document design and analysis of cost |
|   |   | Module packaging design and prototype encapsulated pre-production models | 4 pre-production encapsulated modules | 5 months after start | Damp heat test |
|   |   | Report on direct manufacturing 
cost at scale-up with substantiating 
equipment acquisition cost and 
process step times | Report | 8 months after start | Report and substantiating documentation evaluated to assess direct mfg cost target achievement |

**Objectives of SOW**

## Technical Improvement Opportunities

- Responders will focus on Tier 2 (or lower) level TIOs
- for a single component of the MODULE Tier 1 TIO

**Scope of Work – Technical/Project Plan**

## Project Plan

- 		*****  9-Month Stage Gate Review
- 		 ■   Decision Point Milestone
- 		▲  Quarterly Review of Milestone and Deliverable Status

**Example of Task Plan and Milestones**

| \ Month
Task | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Task 1 | Δ | ..... | ■ | ..... | ..... | ..... | ..... | ..... | ■ |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Task 2 | Δ | ..... | ..... | ..... | ■ | ..... | ..... | ..... | ■ | ..... | ..... | ..... | ..... | ..... | ..... | ..... | ..... | ■ |
| Task 3 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Δ | ..... | ..... | ..... | ..... | ■ | ..... | ..... | ..... | ■ |
| Task 4 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Δ | ..... | ..... | ..... | ..... | ..... | ..... | ..... | ..... | ■ |
| Quarterly Review |  |  | ▲ |  |  | ▲ |  |  |  |  |  | ▲ |  |  | ▲ |  |  | ▲ |
| Stage Gate Review |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | * |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Final Review |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | ♦ |

## Project Plan

***Example of Deliverable Schedule***
- 		_**Deliverable**__**	**__**	**__**Due Date**__**	**__**	**__**% of Subcontract Price**_
- 		*Task 1,  D-1		3rd Month		  9% of subcontract
- 		*Task 1,  D-2		9th Month		12% of subcontract
- 		*Task 2,  D-1		5th Month		14% of subcontract
- 		*Task 2,  D-2		9th Month		10% of subcontract
- 		*Task 2,  D-3		18th Month		  8% of subcontract
- 		*Task 3,  D-1		14th Month		11% of subcontract
- 		*Task 3,  D-2		18th Month		15% of subcontract
- 		*Task 4,  D-1		18th Month		12% of subcontract
- 		**Quarterly Review	3rd Month		  1% of subcontract
- 		**Quarterly Review	6th Month		  1% of subcontract
- 		**Stage Gate Review	9th Month		  3% of subcontract
- 		**Quarterly Review	12th Month		  1% of subcontract
- 		**Quarterly Review	15th Month		  1% of subcontract
- 		**Final Review   		18th Month		  2% of subcontract
- *Price allocated to % of work effort associated with this deliverable.
- **Total of these deliverables must not exceed 10% of the total subcontract

## Schedule for solicitation

- LOI released: March 27, 2007
- Technical Questions Due : April 17, 2007
- Applications due: May 7, 2007
- Applications reviewed: May 7-June 11, 2007
- Selections announced: June 11, 2007
- Awards made: Mid-July, 2007