Government of India Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (Solar R&D Division) **** Call for R&D Proposals

in thrust areas of Solar Energy MNRE solicits R&D project proposals from research entities, in public as well as private sector, preferably in consortiums of industrial partner and academic/ research institutions in identified areas in the field of solar energy. The project proposals need to mention clearly (i) specific objectives with identifiable deliverables, (ii) roles of each and every participating institution, (iii) work modules and timelines and (iv) financial contribution of the participating institutions wherever applicable. The projects are expected to lead to the technologies/ applications ready for commercialization by the participating industry. The following are the identified thrust areas for this call: 1. 2. Development of large area anti-dust, self-cleaning coatings for glass surfaces. Development of high quality back sheets and EVA materials for indigenous manufacturing of PV modules. 3. Improvement of commercial efficiencies of silicon solar cells greater than 20%. 4. Development of high quality and low cost deep discharge batteries for solar PV applications (specific applications need to be identified by the proposers). 5. Development of CZTS solar cells with efficiency target of 15% on one cm. square area. 6. Development of advanced selective coatings for applications on high temperature solar receivers for power generation and process heat systems. 7. Development of advanced receiver systems for parabolic trough, CLFR, solar-dish and central receiver power technologies. 8. Development of storage systems for medium and high temperature applications which have low cost, long service life and low parasitic power requirements. 9. Alternative design configurations of concentrating collector systems with high efficiency and low cost. 10. Development of Solar Cells with peak efficiencies at 30C 40C ambient temperature. 11. Development of Smart Control Systems for roof top PV applications with metering for use in domestic sector. 12. Development of Solar based water purification system for domestic use. Ten hard copies of the project proposals along with soft copy may be submitted to the following address before 30 June, 2013: Mr. I.P. Singh, Director (Solar R&D) Ministry of New & Renewable Energy Block-14, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road New Delhi 110 003 E-mail: ipsingh@nic.in / chalapathi.rao@nic.in