Featured in Looking forward – 08-2012

Concentrated activity

CPV: Late last month Lux Research released a report into the high concentration photovoltaics (HCPV) market predicting a compound annual growth of 31 percent, to reach a market of US$1.6 billion in 2017. These figures represent a capacity of 697 MW, which pales in comparison when compared to the fixed panel PV producers. A group of companies in Californias San Francisco Bay Area are in a position now to take their products to market on a larger scale and to take advantage of this niche, which is best suited to areas with high direct normal irradiance (DNI).

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Jonathan Gifford

27 Jul 2012

Fog often rolls in from the Pacific Ocean, blanketing the city of San Francisco and blocking out the sun. But over one of the bridges and into the Bay Area – to Fremont, Oakland, Berkeley or Richmond – you can quickly find yourself bathed in sunlight, with temperatures significantly higher than the short distance away …

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