UNC-Chapel Hill got a big cash boost in its efforts to discover solar technologies of the future.

The university received $10.8 million from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Basic Energy Sciences. The award, part of a $100 million initiative from the Department of Energy, will allow UNC’s Energy Frontier Research Center for Solar Fuels a cash runway to explore ways to create and store solar power. Specifically, it will build upon the center’s capstone project – a complicated-sounding…