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Silicon CPV is a UK developer, designer and leading provider of cost effective, commercial grade conventional and concentrated solar cells known as “Concentrated Photovoltaic Solar Arrays”, converting energy from the sun into renewable energy. Over the last 10 years Silicon CPV has consistently achieved delivery of ground breaking technological designs and solutions for both commercial and power generating organisations. The solutions created by the company reduce and remove the dependency of the world on conventional fuel generation and current energy sources in the future by replacing traditional fuel sources. Silicon CPV has worked continuously with universities around the world since 1995 funding research projects to bring emerging silicon technologies to commercial reality. These investments have provided the company with the opportunity to jump ahead of all other commercially available solutions that exist today in the worldwide market and have introduced the most efficient solutions offering lower cost/watt with higher radiation conversion per area of silicon. Silicon CPV has research facilities in the UK and mobile manufacturing facilities allowing it to provide bespoke solutions for both on and off-grid power requirements, driving down costs and developing money-saving products and solutions to the renewable energy market. In 2014 the company was awarded a Best Paper Prize for “A High Efficiency, Low-Cost IBC Cell” awarded by The Institute of Physics, Material and Characterisation Group, Loughborough University.