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Concentrated Photovoltaics Summit USA exclusive update

As im sure your all well aware the Concentrated Photovoltaics Summit USA Feb 3 - 4, San Diego is fast approaching. The show has been recieving huge amounts of interest from accross the industry and with over 100 leading companies already confirmed, it's shaping up to become the meeting for CPV leaders to meet and do business.

Assessing the LCPV versus HCPV tussle

"The world is blessed to have more than one option"
 
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There are several aspects of the CPV technology which makes this burgeoning sector to be an intriguing one as of today.
 
And one of them is surely the LCPV versus HCPV tussle.
 

Emcore deploys CPV system in China

Emcore Corporation has deployed its first concentrated photovolataics (CPV) system in China with the XinAo Group.
 
As part of an earlier agreement, the 50 kilowatt (kW) test and evaluation system is fully installed and operational, and is producing power in accordance with specifications.
 

HCPV system developed in Taiwan

Taiwanese company Spirox Corporation recently installed a 5KW (kilowatt) pilot high-concentration photovoltaic (HCPV) system on the campus of National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) located in southern Taiwan. According to local media, Spirox has cooperated with the Department of Electrical Engineering and R&D Foundation under NCKU to develop the HCPV system. 
 

Solar Systems gets $3.3 million from the Australian Government

The Federal Government will fund half of the $6.6 million solar power station to be built in Alice Springs as part of the Australian Government's Alice Solar City project.
 
The Alice Springs Ilparpa Solar Power Station will be one of the largest solar power stations in Australia.
 

Sunlight Direct shifts its focus, gears up for CPV technology

Sunlight Direct has largely abandoned its solar lighting product in favour of a concentrated photovoltaic technology that uses the Sunlight Direct's rooftop solar collector and tracking system to generate power rather than transmit light.
 

Interview with Hansjörg Lerchenmüller, CEO, Concentrix Solar GmbH

"Placing a mix of new technologies with accepted ones makes financing easier"
 
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Recently, Concentrix Solar GmbH in conjunction with its partner Abengoa Solar successfully connected a 2 MW power plant to the public utility grid under the valid version of the Real Decreto 661 / 2007, the first Spanish feed-in tariff law.
 

NREL discuss Efficiency of multijunction concentrator cells

Mitsui Engineering starts onsite research for CPV plant

Cosmo Oil Co Ltd and Masdar (Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company) have reportedly commissioned Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co Ltd to construct a power plant for the verification of concentrating photovoltaics (CPV).
 

XeroCoat's anti-reflective coating technology receives patent grants

XeroCoat has recently received notice of issuance of three separate patents for its method of production and morphology control of silica and silica-like films.
 
Initial patent grants have been received from Singapore and Australia.