The Applied Solar Technology Award in honor of Hoyt Clarke Hottel recognizes unique solar applications that lead to commercial advancements. This award, established by ASES in 2000, was originally set up to recognize accomplishments in the field of solar thermal technologies. In recent years, this award has shifted its focus to recognize significant contributions in the unique and innovative application of solar and related technologies that support game-changing commercial endeavors. The Applied Solar Technology Award is a high award, which complements the Innovative Research and Development Award in honor of Charles Greeley Abbot. That award recognizes solar research and development, and this one recognizes solar applications and methods to help realize the ASES vision for A world equitably and sustainably transformed to 100% renewable energy.
The Award was originally named for Prof. Hoyt Clarke Hottel, who was in charge of the Godfrey L. Cabot solar energy R&D program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from the late 1930s to the mid-1960s. The Cabot program at MIT involved research on non-biological uses of solar energy. Although solar heat collectors of a number of types had already been used in test centers for several centuries, Prof. Hottel and his coworkers were the first to develop accurate analytical models for solar heat collectors. Work led by Dr. Hottel led to a calibration adjustment in the Eppley pyrheliometer and the development of a practical“utilizability” method for solar energy calculations. This work laid a foundation for advanced calculators and early computer tools, such as F-CHART and TRNSYS. This ultimately led to a myriad of solar calculation and modeling products available today. The International Solar Energy Society honored Prof. Hottel with the very first Farrington Daniels Award in 1975.
The criteria for the Applied Solar Technology Award in honor of Hoyt Clarke Hottel are as follows:
ASES requests that nominations include the submission of the nomination form and two letters of support for each nominee. The nomination form must be submitted by a current ASES member. Please access and submit the nomination form below; however, the letters of support should be emailed to awards@ases.org, using the file naming protocol Hottel_NomineeLastName_LetterWriterLastName. If possible, include the nominee’s CV or resume or a link to it. Please, no self-nominations.
Please include at least two letters of recommendation with your Hottel nomination form and submit all nomination materials to awards@ases.org.
2024 Fred Morse
2023 Dan Shugar
2022 Steven Johnston
2021 Not Awarded
2020 Dr. Thomas Hoff
2018 Teresa Zhang
2017 Ranga Pitchumani
2016, 2015, and 2014 The Hoyt Clarke Hottel Award was not presented these years
2013 Sanford (Sandy) Klein
2012 Frank Kreith, retired from University of Colorado
2011 Mark Thornbloom, Kelelo
2010 Charles E. Andraka, Sandia National Labs
2009 Ajeet Rohatgi, Suniva
2008 Geoffrey Lester Harding
2007 Yogi Goswami, University of South Florida
2006 Jan Kreider, University of Colorado
2005 William A. Beckman, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2004 Stan Ovshinsky, Energy Conversion Devices
2003 Gary C. Vliet, University of Texas at Austin
2002 Gilbert Cohen, Duke Solar Energy
2001 Paul B. MacCready, Aerovironment
2000 Randy Gee & Ken May, Industrial Solar Technology Corporation
Questions? Contact awards@ases.org.