RESEARCH AREAS

MISSION

The Argonne-Northwestern Solar Energy Research (ANSER) Center brings together scientists from many disciplines to explore the Sun's enormous potential to supply energy for human needs. ANSER's broad portfolio of cross-disciplinary basic research seeks innovative solutions to the challenging technical problems of putting solar energy to work.

WHY SOLAR?

Solar Energy has extraordinary potential to address three daunting challenges the world faces in the next fifty years:

• Find new sources of energy to meet an energy demand that will be at least twice today's demand;
• Reduce the production of harmful pollutants that threaten human health;
• Reduce the rate of greenhouse gas emissions that accelerate climate change.

THE POSSIBILITIES

Sunlight is by far the Earth's most abundant energy resource. In just one day and a half, the sun delivers to Earth as much energy as is contained in all the oil that was ever created in geologic time. In one hour, the Sun delivers to Earth as much energy as humans produce in one year using coal, oil, natural gas, biomass, hydropower and nuclear power combined.

The ANSER Center is a U.S. DOE Energy Frontier Research Center.