Title :
NACIR: A new project on CPV´S funded by the European comission under 7THFP
Author :
Sala, Gabriel ; Pachón, Dolores ; Leloux, Jonathan ; Victoria, Marta ; Bett, Andreas W. ; Banda, Pedro ; Gombert, Andreas ; Diaz, Vicente ; Vazquez, Miguel Angel ; El Moussaoui, Abdelhaquim ; Abulfotuh, Fuad A.
Author_Institution :
Univ. Politec. de Madrid-UPM, Madrid, Spain
Abstract :
The European Commission has subsidized the Project NACIR on CPV´s for the next four years beginning on 1st January 2009. The main goal of this project is to join together the owners of the most advanced European CPV technology12, with respect to the state of the art, in order to research from their leading position new applications for CPV systems. In addition to opening up new markets, this research will unveil possible sources of failure in new environments outside Europe, in order to assure component reliability.
Keywords :
photovoltaic power systems; power system economics; power system reliability; CPV; European comission; NACIR; component reliability; concentrator photovoltaic system; Acceleration; Costs; Databases; Europe; Irrigation; Meteorology; Optical pumping; Power conditioning; Power generation; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2009 34th IEEE
Conference_Location :
Philadelphia, PA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2949-3
Electronic_ISBN :
0160-8371
DOI :
10.1109/PVSC.2009.5411593