Cost-effective high intensity concentrated photovoltaic system

Author

Sater, Bernard ; Perales, Mico ; Jackson, Jon ; Gadkari, Sagar ; Zahuranec, Terry

Author_Institution

GreenField Solar Corp., Oberlin, OH, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

25-26 May 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

A 500+ sun high intensity, dense array CPV system, the StarGen™ solar concentrator, was designed and built. The StarGen™ solar concentrator was designed to capitalize on the unique features of the high intensity, high performance PhotoVolt™ solar cell. Unique characteristics of the PhotoVolt™ solar cell enable very dense packing of solar cells, resulting in a 12 m² solar concentrator system with two focal points, each containing 100 cm² of cells. It is this dense array CPV system design approach that GreenField Solar believes will long-term deliver the lowest cost per kWh of electricity.

Keywords

photovoltaic power systems; power generation economics; solar cell arrays; solar energy concentrators; StarGen solar concentrator; cost-effective high intensity concentrated photovoltaic system; high intensity dense array CPV system; photovolt solar cell; Arrays; Green products; Junctions; Photovoltaic cells; Receivers; Silicon; Sun; CPV; PV; concentrator; hybrid; photovoltaic; solar energy; thermal;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Energytech, 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Cleveland, OH

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0777-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-0775-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EnergyTech.2011.5948503

Filename

5948503