Developing electrical, mechanical, and communications standards that define how rollable solar PV material is mounted directly onto soil.

• Mechanizing PV Solar on Land, Power Electronics, Sept 2021

• Solar-Direct-to-Soil R&D Summary (pdf).

• Solar-Direct-to-Soil Initiative (pdf).

Developing solar PV material mounted directly onto building roof and wall surfaces (e.g. plywood), edge-to-edge (more...). ​

Developing free and open array power conversion electronics (more...)​

Ohio State 2020-21 Rollable solar direct to soil

• Mechanical design (preliminary design pdf)

• Project files (435mb zip, files on cloud)

UMass Lowell 2020-21 Rollable solar direct to soil, Prof. Schmid 

• Mechanical design (pictures, Solidworks 2018 files)

• Presentation (ppt, FPGA code zip)

Articles published in national media (more...)