News, Events and Business Intelligence for the CPV Industry
Xcel’s decision to buy power from the world’s largest CPV plant shows just how close the technology is edging to its rivals in the renewable energy sector.
30 Aug 2010
Italian legislation has so far left CPV out in the cold. But that is set to change next year, writes Jason Deign, with the introduction of feed-in tariffs that could create an important new market for the industry.
16 Aug 2010
If renewable energy is to come into its own in Europe, fundamental changes need to be made to the existing energy infrastructure. CPV Today sister title, CSP Today, speaks to Greenpeace EU energy policy advisor, Frauke Thies, about the latest strategy for running Europe on renewable energy.
16 Aug 2010
In every sector there are “leaders” that charge ahead with technological advances and welcome changes in strategy when markets get tough. Katherine Steiner-Dicks speaks to Jose Toña, the commercial manager at Spanish HCPV solar developer, Guascor Solar Corporation, to learn how a domestic dive in Spanish solar investment is not stopping his team’s main objective to reach grid parity. Will an international strategy be the key to this company’s success and act as a platform for other HCPV players?
20 Jul 2010
Spectrolab says its solar cell has set a new world record for terrestrial concentrator solar cell efficiency, converting 41.6% of concentrated sunlight into electricity. The company says it has surpassed the previous record of 41.1% held by the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany.
11 Sep 2009
The University of New South Wales (UNSW), located in Sydney, has claimed a new world record of 43% of sunlight converted into electricity.
02 Sep 2009
According to a new report entitled “The CPV Challenge (Part I): Achieving Grid Parity”, written by the University of Jaen (Spain) and CPV today, CPV could reach grid parity between 2011 and 2015 in places with high levels of solar irradiance. Efficiency increases in both cells and optics will be instrumental in bringing about significant cost reductions.
03 Mar 2009
The CPV industry has made great efforts in the past few years bringing costs down and increasing efficiencies.
The adaptation of triple junction cells to terrestrial spectrum is just an example of the many efforts which are being conducted to increase efficiency and therefore also the return from CPV systems.
27 Feb 2009
Veeco Instruments, which offers MOCVD systems for III-V multi-junction solar cells, has recently bagged orders for thermal sources from six solar companies and two large multi-unit MOCVD orders from LED and concentrator photo-voltaic (CPV) customers.
Further details weren't shared.
27 Feb 2009
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There is a wide spectrum of CPV propositions from the low concentration systems that create 2x or 3x uplifts on conventional panels through silicon-based medium concentration approach to HCPV offerings at concentration levels of 250x and more.
18 Feb 2009
Evergreen Solar has stated that a new 250 kilowatt solar energy power plant using its solar panels is now operational at DuPont's Pioneer Hi-Bred Waimea Research Center in Kauai, Hawaii.
18 Feb 2009
Nathaniel Group Inc. has chosen Celsia Technologies to provide the cooling solution for its concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) system.
18 Feb 2009
Evergreen Solar, a manufacturer of solar power panels with its proprietary, low-cost String Ribbon wafer technology, expects to reach full capacity of 40 MW per quarter by the end of 2009.
The company's Devens capacity expansion is going as per the plan, said its chairman, CEO and president, Richard M. Feldt.
18 Feb 2009
GreenVolts says it has come across a new technology opportunity that will allow the CPV technology company to make its CarouSol even more efficient.
18 Feb 2009
What is the future for utility scale solar? According to recent reports and commitment from utilities in the Southwest and East coast USA, the future is optimistic. SEIA recently announced that utilities’ solar megawatts added to the grid grew from 169 MW in 2008 to 279 in 2009, a growth of 66 percent in a year when electricity demand as a whole declined as the result of an economic downturn.
03 Sep 2010
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