After years of slow progress, the global market for concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) systems is entering a phase of explosive growth, with worldwide installations set to expand at double-digit percentages every year through 2020, rising by ...
Tags: CPV, Electronics
After years of slow progress, the global market for concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) systems is entering a phase of explosive growth, with worldwide installations set to boom by 750 percent from 2013 to the end of 2020. CPV installations are ...
FLIR thermal imaging is increasingly playing an important part in ensuring maximum energy yield from solar panels. It is involved throughout the life cycle of the product from its design, manufacture and quality assurance procedures ...
Tags: Solar Module, Energy
VDE Americas (a subsidiary of Germany's VDE Testing and Certification Institute) and First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which makes thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, ...
In April 2012, Stion Corp of San Jose, CA, USA, which makes nanostructure-based CIGS (copper indium gallium sulphur-diselenide) thin-film photovoltaic panels, installed a 60kW demonstration array in Hattiesburg, MS consisting of some of the ...
Tags: Modules, Electrical, Electronics
GE Global Research—the technology development arm of the General Electric Co.—discussed research that, it believes, could significantly impact the design of future wind turbine blades. Using high-performance computing (HPC) to ...
TSMC Solar Ltd, which was founded in May 2009 as a subsidiary of the world's biggest silicon wafer foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Inc (TSMC), says TUV SUD has confirmed that its latest commercial-sized (1.09m2) CIGS (copper ...
Tags: TSMC Solar CIGS, Electrical, Electronics, Solar
Sunmodule Protect solar panel guarantees exceptional energy yield over extended service life - SolarWorld, the largest U.S. solar manufacturer for more than 35 years, today introduced its Sunmodule Protect glass-glass solar panel. No ...
Tags: glass, glass solar panel, glass industry
A solar energy project at the University of Sheffield which is celebrating its second anniversary has shown almost all of the 2,000 systems in the scheme are “doing what they say on the tin”. Researchers running Sheffield ...
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Photovoltaic inverter design is now seen as the crucial element in solar power development, writes James Turner, and he discusses some of the challenges that can shape PV inverter design. Over the last few years the photovoltaic (PV) ...
TSMC Solar Ltd, which was founded in May 2009 as a subsidiary of the world’s biggest silicon wafer foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Inc (TSMC), has announced confirmation by both TUV SUD and Underwriters Laboratories (UL) ...
Tags: TSMC Solar, TUV SUD, UL, photovoltaic module
Docter Optics,the world's leading producer of molded lenses for automotive projection headlights,has also been serving the solar industry for years.Vendors of concentrated photovoltaic systems(CPV)rely on Docter Optics for optical ...
Tags: New Docfast Technology, Energy Yield, CPV, Docter Optics
Centrosolar Glas GmbH&Co.KG has developed a particularly thin solar glass for photovoltaic modules.With solar glasses that are only 2.3 mm or 2.6 mm thick Centrosolar Glas has transferred another innovation in the area of cover glasses for ...
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CentroSolar Glas GmbH & Co. KG has developed a particularly thin solar glass for photovoltaic (PV) modules. With solar glass that is only 2.3 millimetres (mm) or 2.6mm thick, CentroSolar Glas has transferred into series production this ...
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Soitec of Bernin,France says that its concentrator photovoltaic(CPV)technology is present in most of the eight projects in the sub-category'concentrator solar plants with installed capacity of less than 12MW'after the selection of ...
Tags: Soitec, CPV, French, 'Large Solar Power Plant'Projects