certification function exclusively.

The other dissenting sample

member recommended the ERDA headquarters facility as the one and only SERI location. All sample members urge a centralized management over whatever SERI facilities might ultimately exist.

Commensurate with their recommendations of roles and missions for the SERI, four members of the sample would have SERI projects sponsored by ERDA exclusively. No member recommended that SERI sponsorship be limited to government agencies generally. Eleven members recommended that SERI be allowed to work for federal, state, and local, as well as for foreign governments. In addition, these same eleven members recommended allowing SERI to work directly under industry sponsorship. One member indicated indifference to this factor.

With respect to the technical review of the SERI technical program (i.e., pre-review of on-going and proposed new projects), eight sample members made recommendations. Six recommended a standing technical review committee composed of industry, university, and (for some) consumer representatives. This recommendation was associated with the recommendation that the SERI be operated by a private organization under technical and budgetary control of ERDA through the provisions of a routinely re-negotiated contract. One industrysample member proposed that ERDA alone provide technical review. member recommended that a committee formed of representatives from those government agencies concerned with energy be given this oversight responsibility. Eight members did not offer recommendations on this point.

SERI Development Approach

One

All sixteen members of the industry sample contributed recommendations on criteria to be employed in selecting a location for the

SERI headquarters and any field-sites needed for the implementation

of SERI functions.

Table VII contains the count of sample members

recommending the several criteria proposed by one or more of their numbers. These criteria have been grouped in Table VII according to (1) cost, (2) manpower availability, (3) solar-energy resources, and (4) commercial plant sites and solar energy markets. ability of engineers, scientists and technicians

The avail

or equivalently,

was judged the single

the means for attracting skilled manpower most important criterion for site selection. Easy efficient access to the SERI from anywhere in the world was the second most important criterion cited by the members in open discussion. While solar energy resources were frequently recommended, they were usually included for the selection of field-sites.

On the question of the sequence of selection of a site for SERI and an operating organization, eight members of the member industry sample offered recommendations. Three recommended selecting the site first, four recommended selecting the organization then the site, while one member recommended simultaneous selection.

TABLE VII

APPENDIX I

SOLAR-ENERGY INDUSTRY REPRESENTATIVES PARTICIPATING IN THIS STUDY

These sixteen organizations comprise the solar-energy industry

sample.

Aerovironment Inc., Pasadena, California

Arizona Public Service Company, Phoenix, Arizona

DSS Engineers, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Exxon Research & Engineering Company, Linden, New Jersey

Grumman Aerospace Corporation, Bethpage, New York

Intertechnology Corporation, Warrenton, Virginia

Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, California

Mobil Tyco Solar Energy Corporation, Waltham, Massachusetts

Motorola, Inc. Phoenix, Arizona

Olin Brass, Olin Corporation, East Alton, Illinois

Owens-Illinois, Toledo, Ohio

Raytheon Corporation, Lexington, Massachusetts

Rockwell International Corporation, El Segundo, California

Solaron Corporation, Denver Colorado

Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Baltimore, Maryland

Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

These organizations, not members of the industry sample, also contributed information used in this report.

Calspan Corporation, Buffalo, New York

Kaman Aerospace Corporation, Bloomfield, Connecticut

The Research and Engineering Advisory Committee of the National
Security Industrial Association, Washington, D. C.

Southern California Gas Company, Los Angeles, California

APPENDIX II

DEFINITIONS FOR THE SOLAR ENERGY

RESEARCH INSTITUTE (SERI)

In sum,

Brief de

The

A number of missions were proposed for implementation in the SERI by one or more members of the solar-energy industry sample. these were found to comprise about 16 distinct functions. scriptions of these functions are presented in this Appendix. language of these definitions has been selected to convey the apparent meaning which the industry representatives attached to the terms In discussion, their employment of these function names conformed to the usage which the authors are accustomed to hearing within the wider research and development community. The order in which the definitions are presented here is the same as the listing order of function names

in Table II in the text.

Systems Analysis (Engineering and Economic Studies)

This term covers two levels in the responses: (1) the analysis of the overall National energy system and of the characteristics of the technologies (including solar) available to satisfy its needs, especially those characteristics which directly affect the integration of these many technologies into a National whole; and (2) the analysis of solar materials, components, subsystems and systems, as well as larger systems with which they may interface, to define the characteristics which affect the interaction.