The next meeting of the IEEE East Tennessee Section will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2007 at the Mandarin House Restaurant. A dinner buffet begins at 6PM followed by the speaker at 7PM. Reservations are required. Please RSVP on the section website at ieee.org/go/easttn. Directions to the Mandarin House Restaurant can be found on the RSVP page.The deadline for reservations is Monday, Oct. 15th.
SPEAKER: Stephen Levy
TOPIC: Solar Power for $1 per Watt
Where is the solar electricity that is ‘just around the corner’ and why has the cost not reached affordability after the technology has been around for the past 40 years? Well, it is at the level of commercialization of the automobile before Ford unveiled the model T. Just as Mr. Ford revolutionized the automobile industry in producing a reasonably priced car, we have the ability today to produce photoelectricity at a price that most everyone owning a home could consider. We can make it affordable at a dollar a watt installed today, if we had the leadership and capital to build factories that would produce 3.5 Gigawatts per year of panels per year. This was the conclusion of a study done for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The same order of magnitude cost for the solar panels are being predicted by others. My talk will discuss the basis for such a plan and the factors that must be realized in order to reach the cost goals. Reaching the goal price will create a world-wide market in the $100 Billion range.
Thursday, October 4, 2007
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