SHELTON, CONNECTICUT and TORONTO, ONTARIO- OPEL Technologies Inc, a leading global supplier of high concentration photovoltaic (“HCPV”) solar panels and solar tracker systems and a semiconductor device and process developer, announces it has secured a line of credit for $5 million from Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”) in Massachusetts. “We are pleased to add this line [...]
Following the webinar ‘What is the next step for CPV commercialization in the US’, PV Insider got the thoughts of Lewis Fraas and Andy Skumanich on topics such as energy storage, cheap imports and the role of incentives. During the webinar a number of questions were put to the speakers that could not get answered [...]
Magpower and Suntrix are two companies leading the way in commercializing Concentrated Solar PV in emerging markets for the technology, and will be sharing their experiences at the 3rd Concentrated Photovoltaic Summit USA (14-15 November, San Jose, CA). PV Insider are delighted to announce the addition of two new case studies at the 3rd CPV [...]
Despite an uneven economic recovery and the lingering effects of the global recession on virtually every industry around the world, Leon (Lee) M. Pierhal, Chief Executive Officer of OPEL Solar, Inc., a leading global supplier of high concentration photovoltaic (“HCPV”) solar panels and other solar products, including utility scale ground-based tracker systems and unique light [...]
Victor Valley College in Victorville, California and SolFocus recently held a grand opening ceremony for the largest solar power plant in North America using concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) systems. After two months of construction, the one megawatt solar power plant is now providing clean power to Victor Valley College in Victorville, California. The SolFocus CPV technology employs a [...]
San Diego Gas & Electric this week introduced two new solar power demonstration installations that concentrate the light and heat from the sun to generate power in two distinctively different ways. The concentrated solar power technology employed by the utility’s El Cajon, Calif., operations center include a PowerDish(TM), built by Infinia of Kennewick, Wash, a mirrored [...]
The United States Air Force has signed a contract with the Schafer Corporation of Massachusetts to allow a test of concentrating solar power (CSP) at a Maui, Hawaii military site in an attempt to offset a military computer system’s power demand. Officially titled the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) contract, the project is specifically focused [...]
Inspired Solar Technologies, Inc. (IST), a leading developer of tracking systems for the solar power industry including PV and Concentrated Solar Thermal, reported that it is one of ten nominees for the Intersolar Award 2010, designating this year’s most innovative and groundbreaking company in the area of solar energy. Intersolar Europe will announce the winner [...]
Quadra Solar Corporation this weel announced that it reached 32.2% PV module efficiency for its iPyramid™ Concentrated Photovoltaic and Thermal (CPVT) system. The combined PV and Thermal efficiencies are over 62%. With additional planned improvements, Quadra Solar expects to raise its PV module efficiency to over 35%, in additional to a matching amount for the [...]
With more available sunshine than any other European nation,Spain is committed to developing solar energy as a way to provide electricity and to power its economy cleanly and cost-efficiently. The government has targeted an installed solar generating capacity of 3000 MW by 2010, and removed economic barriers for connecting solar power technologies to the nation’s [...]
Concentrix Solar, a leading supplier of Concentrator Photovoltaic (CPV) systems and a new division of the Soitec Group (Euronext Paris), the world’s leading supplier of engineered substrates, has announced that it has signed a contract with Chevron Technology Ventures for the deployment of a one megawatt (MW) CPV power plant to be installed at a Chevron [...]
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