The Cadmium Telluride Accelerator Consortium, a new consortium managed by NREL and led by the University of Toledo, First Solar, Colorado State University, Toledo Solar Inc., and Sivananthan Laboratories, Inc., is being launched by the DOE. The goal of the $20 million initiative is to make cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar cells cheaper, more efficient and to also develop new markets for solar cell products in the US.