2National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401

Solar-electric power using photovoltaic technology has a number of highly attractive attributes, including: renewable energy resource, no regulated emissions, no CO₂ emissions, modular, easily sited, low maintenance, power generation profile that naturally matches typical load profiles, etc. Solar-electric power has been primarily used in off-grid applications, but has recently begun introduction into grid-tied electric power markets. The U.S. photovoltaic industry would like to accelerate its’ technical and marketing progress so that solar-electric power can become a significant economic, environmental, and energy resource for the nation and worldwide. U.S. photovoltaic industry has begun a technology and marketing roadmap to address the potential of solar-electric power. The U.S. photovoltaic industry established a vision "to provide the electrical energy consumer competitive and environmentally friendly energy products and services from a thriving United States-based solar-electric power industry." The industry also set some very aggressive growth goals (25% per year) that would expand it into a significant energy resource for the U.S. (15% of new electrical generation capacity by 2020). The roadmapping effort has identified a number of infrastructural and technical issues that will need to be addressed to reach these aggressive goals. This paper will review the status of the PV Industry Roadmap.