To accelerate research and development efforts to help drive the growth of the clean energy industry in Singapore, the Clean Energy Programme Office has given out S$10m to eight research teams to fund their projects on clean energy.

The projects span a wide range of technologies in the solar energy field.

This includes research and development in the various main classes of solar energy, including purification of solar-grade silicon used in conventional wafer-based solar cells, thin-film photovoltaics (PV), novel PV technologies such as dye-sensitised solar cells, as well as high-efficiency concentrator solar cells.

The eight research proposals came from the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University and Sinomem Technology. They were picked from 60 submissions.

The proposals were the first to be awarded the grants under the Clean Energy Research Programme (CERP).

Via - Channelnewsasia