CPV Today

As commercialization moves into its second year with launches into large-scale solar deployments, both distributed generation and utility scale, there will be a discussion assessing the state of the industry.

The CPV industry might have expanded very rapidly but now it needs to come up with successful long-term demonstrations with current design technologies
 
The last couple of years have proved to be an eventful period for an emerging technology like CPV.
 

The CPV sector is currently competing with green technologies that have sufficiently proved their feasibility (biofuels, wind, PV...) finding easier to receive governmental subsidies and tax benefits that make them more attractive to potential investors.
 

Concentrix Solar has been awarded a contract to participate with its FLATCON systems in a concentrator photovoltaic project in the framework of the MASDAR initiative in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
 

Solar energy start-up Morgan Solar has raised $4.7 million from Iberdrola Group, Nypro and Turnstone Capital Management.

Nypro, a plastics and injection molding company, has invested in Morgan Solar through its wholly owned subsidiary New Ventures Group. Investors will fund Morgan Solar’s migration from research and development to manufacturing.

Green-technology firms garnered the largest share of venture capital in the third quarter, with global investments rising to $1.59 billion, according to a survey.

German company Azur Space Solar Power is getting ready to increase its capacity needs.

Veeco Instruments’ metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) System has qualified for production at Azur.

WATTPIC, is present (Stand B4) in the “All Energy” conference, taking place the 7th and 8th of October in Melbourne, Australia.

Portuguese utility Águas de Portugal (ADP) has signed an agreement for the installation of 8.5 MW of peak power (MWp) of CPV technology.

ADP, which plans to invest over €830 million by 2014 in renewable energy projects, with a goal of covering 3% of the electrical needs, has chosen to work with SolFocus.