Physics of Reliability: Evaluating Design Insights for Component Technologies in Solar (PREDICTS)

Funding Opportunity Number: DE-FOA-0000861 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementCategory of Funding Activity: EnergyCFDA Number: 81.087Eligible Applicants Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"Agency Name: DOE-GFOClosing Date: Apr 29, 2013Award Ceiling: $0Expected Number of Awards: Creation Date: Feb 15, 2013Funding Opportunity Description: Physics of Reliability: Evaluating Design Insights for Component Technologies in Solar (PREDICTS) The Physics of Reliability: Evaluating Design Insights for Component Technologies in Solar (PREDICTS) Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) that is being issued by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is seeking applications that attempt to identify and evaluate only fundamental, intrinsic failure mechanisms. This FOA is NOT intended to determine or otherwise evaluate extrinsic failures. In addition to addressing intrinsic failure mechanisms, solar component lifetime and reliability evaluations must transition from a correlation-based approach to a causation-based approach. This transition will require the development of physics-based models that allow for the accurate and precise determination of the lifetime and the failure/degradation mechanisms of solar installation systems and components based upon their fundamental composition, method of asse...
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