Solar Site
The Center for Energy Research’s Solar Site is located on the corner of Flamingo Road and Swenson Street, at the northwest corner of UNLV’s Maryland campus. This site houses Amonix concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) systems and a 100-kV solar dish. This site also has a Façade Evaluation Facility, where windows, built-in photovoltaics (BIPV) systems, and other building components can be experimentally studied.
Regional Test Center
UNLV’s Center for Energy Research is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy to operate one of five Regional Test Centers nationwide to evaluate new photovoltaic (PV) products in various types of climatological conditions. The other four facilities are in Colorado, Florida, Michigan and New Mexico. UNLV's facility is located at the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s water treatment plant located between Las Vegas and Boulder City, Nevada. Because of the high solar fluxes present in Southern Nevada, this facility has been operating high-concentration PV systems manufactured by Soitec and PV panels by many other PV manufacturers
The Façade Facility
The UNLV Center for Energy Research has developed a facility that can be used to evaluate the thermal and optical performance — if the latter is pertinent — of facade elements, also known as fenestration. This facility is located at UNLV's Solar Site on Flamingo Road in Las Vegas.
Science and Engineering Building (SEB)
The SEB is one of two main buildings at UNLV’s Maryland campus that house the College of Engineering. Along with the TBE rooftop, the rooftop of SEB as well as a lab within the build is a site for solar research.