Everphoton Energy has reportedly won an open bid held by Taiwan’s Institute of Nuclear Energy Research of the Cabinet-level Atomic Energy Council to set up a 200KWp HCPV system in southern Taiwan.
The completion is scheduled for mid-August 2009.
According to a report filed by Digitimes, the company also shared that it will set up a demonstration CPV power-generating system using solar cells made from III-V compound semiconductors, which it will complete by the end of September this year. The company plans to partner Taiwan-based LED chipmaker Epistar to use part of its production capacity for red LED epitaxial wafers to reduce its solar cell production costs.
Another Taiwanese company, Spirox, says its HCPV system is now commercially ready. Comprising a Fresnel lens, high-efficiency GaAs cells, a PV module and a precise tracking system, the power-plant grade HCPV system was co-developed by Spirox and National Cheng Kung University (NCKU).
