CPV Today

Nathaniel Group Inc. has chosen Celsia Technologies to provide the cooling solution for its concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) system.
 
Celsia, which develops and commercialises cooling solutions built on patented micro thermofluidic technology, stated that by using its patented NanoSpreader vapor chamber technology, the company was able to meet all of the Nathaniel Group's specifications for the thermal module.
 
For its part, Nathaniel Group is working on a prototype of a CPV system. For the same, it had received a $250,000 grant from Clean Energy Development Fund through the Vermont Department of Public Service. The demonstration project is scheduled to be installed at Nathaniel's facility in Vergennes. As per the previous announcements, the project is expected produce power in the summer of 2009.
 
Nathaniel Group acknowledged that the thermal solution was going to be a particularly difficult challenge because of the design requirements. "Most notable among these were a very small footprint requirement, the ability to operate through an enormous temperature range, and the need to remain effective in a variety of positions as the system tracks the sun throughout the day," said Nathaniel's president Joel Melnick.