SolarBridge Technologies (SolarBridge) has been awarded a $2.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) through its SunShot Initiative, a program whose goal is to reduce the cost of solar energy systems by 75 percent by 2020.
SolarBridge will use the DOE grant to accelerate development of what the company says is an ultra low-cost microinverter and universal mechanism for connecting power conversion electronics to solar modules. SolarBridge will collaborate on the SunShot Initiative with module manufacturer SunPower Corp. to develop an ac module that leverages the new attachment scheme and lower cost microinverter.