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Energy Focus, Inc. has been awarded a $1 million contract by the
DuPont-University of Delaware Very High Efficiency Solar Cell (VHESC)
Consortium to develop advanced solar cell technologies as part of
DARPA's VHESC project with the Consortium. The VHESC project is
attempting to develop 50 percent efficient solar cells that are
affordable and producible in large volumes.
"Energy Focus is proud to be an integral part of this revolutionary
technology," said John Davenport, CEO of Energy Focus, Inc. "Our team
of engineers has developed a technology vital to the success of the
VHESC project, and one that offers major energy and cost savings in the
future. A building using VHESC and EFO technology gets the best of both
worlds: free power from the sun and the most efficient way to convert
that power to useful light."
The VHESC program is developing
integrated optical system-photovoltaic (PV) modules for portable
applications that operate at 50 percent efficiency. Energy Focus is
integrating the optical design with the solar cell design, and has
entered previously unoccupied design space.
