Tag Archives: concentrators
Where Solar Concentrators and Energy Efficient Lights Meet
Concentrating PV and solar lighting are two industries with compelling ideas and, to date, relatively anemic sales. Combining ideas from both fields might be the answer. Canada’s SunCentral is in the midst of testing a solar lighting system that it says can reduce lighting and cooling loads in buildings while making offices more pleasant places [...]
Can Concentrators Undercut PV on Price?
Solar concentrators seem perpetually to be the zero-billion-dollar market in green technology, but times are changing. Soliant, which spun out of Caltech, has come out with a new version ofits concentrator/PV module system that it says can deliver power for"the lowest price per kilowatt hour for commercial rooftopinstallations," or 8 cents per kilowatt hour. The [...]
Are Concentrators Finally Gaining Ground?
Maybe concentrators are no longer the Rodney Dangerfield of solar. Congentrix Energy announced today that it would build a 30-megawattsolar park for a division of Xcel Energy in Colorado. While solar parksof this size are becoming somewhat common, this deal is unusual in thatthe field will be composed of multi-junction solar panels combined withconcentrators and [...]
Pyron Pioneers Solar Concentrators With New Patent
Pyron Solar Inc. (Pyron) is a San Diego company that develops and makes solar concentrators. Pyron and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) recently announcedthat SDG&E is building a demonstration project to test Pyron’spatented concentrated solar power system. The system uses shallow poolsof water as a passive cooling system for high efficiency solar cells. Pyron’s [...]