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Concentrated Solar Power – Publications, Resources

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Solar Thermal Power Plant Developers

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Concentrated Solar Thermal Systems

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Concentrated Photovoltaics

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Semprius

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Semprius is developing low cost, high performance concentrator photovoltaic modules to make solar power generation economically viable in sunny, dry climates.

Areva Solar

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Areva Solar offers solar thermal electric power stations that provide large-scale low-cost, reliable, renewable energy. Areva’s technology is proven, easily manufactured and installed, and scalable to high volume.

CSP Today

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CSP-news offers news and events on the Concentrated Solar Power industry, as

well as providing the only social network for professionals of CSP to meet,

network, share information and do business.

Entech Solar

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ENTECH

provides advanced solar energy technology for a variety of applications, ranging

from day lighting systems for commercial buildings to solar power arrays for

spacecraft. Our inexpensive Fresnel lenses capture the sunlight, and focus it

onto small solar cells, thereby reducing electricity costs compared to

conventional flat-plate (planar) solar energy approaches.

Hyper Solar

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Using innovative photonics and low-cost manufacturing processes, HyperSolar

is developing the world’s first thin and flat solar concentrator for standard

solar cells.

Instituto de Concentracion Fotovoltaica

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Development of concentrated photovoltaic plants in Spain.

Daystar Technologies

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DayStars patented ConcentraTIR™ (Total Internal Reflection) PV module has been designed to incorporate a variety of cell material components, including wafer-Si, Spheral Si, thin-film CIGS and a-Si.

Infinia

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Free-piston power generation, combined heat and power,

and cooling technology for the government, military, and commercial markets

based on the Stirling cycle. Solar dish technology.

Morgan Solar

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Ultra thin optical structures that capture, transport and concentrate sunlight.

Light is redirected onto tiny slivers of PV at the edge of the optic – not underneath.

Eliminates the bulkiness of traditional CPV systems

European Solar Thermal Electricity Association (ESTELA)

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ESTELA is a European Industry Association created to support the emerging European solar thermal electricity industry for the generation of green power in Europe and abroad, mainly in the Mediterranean region. ESTELA involves and is open to all main actors in Europe : promoters, developers, manufacturers, utilities, engineering companies, research institutions.

SolFocus

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SolFocus combines the efficiency of triple-junction solar cells with the power of tailored imaging optics.

SkyFuel

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Our two thermal Concentrating Solar Power technologies, SkyTrough™ (parabolic trough) and Linear Power Tower™ (linear Fresnel) employ arrays of reflectors that focus 50-100 times the Sun’s normal radiation onto heat-absorbing pipes.

Cool Earth

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Our technology incorporates inflated photovoltaic collectors to

enable solar energy farming at well below the cost of coal and other

non-renewable energy sources.

Sopogy

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Sopogy manufactures MicroCSP™ solar concentrator technology. MicroCSP™ uses mirrors to intensify the energy of the sun for electricity production, solar air conditioning and process heating.

Pacific Solar Tech

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Pacific Solar Tech uses advanced dome-shaped lenses to concentrate sunlight 10 times onto small area solar cells (only one tenth of the lens size).

SolarReserve

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Solar power tower configuration which captures and focuses the sun’s thermal energy with thousands of tracking mirrors.

Heated molten salt is then stored, maintaining 98% thermal efficiency, and eventually pumped to a steam generator.

Sunengy

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The Liquid Solar Array system is based on floating solar collectors made mostly of plastic. Each has a very small area of silicon photovoltaic cells at the water surface with a large, thin plastic focusing lens rotating slowly above to track the sun.

GreenVolts

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Founded in 2005 to deliver solar power at fossil fuel costs. The companys

breakthrough high concentration photovoltaic technology efficiently integrates

tracking and optics into a system that dramatically lowers energy cost.

Solargenix Energy

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Leading provider in the design, manufacturing, integration and deployment of solar thermal renewable energy systems that address the cooling, heating and power needs of residential and commercial markets. Solar troughs, space heating and cooling, de-salination, vacuum tubes, …

JX Crystals

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JX Crystals champions Thermo and Solar Photovoltaic products that work together to generate heat and electricity by combining renewable solar energy with the most efficient use of fossil fuels.

Infrared-sensitive gallium antimonide (GaSb) photovoltaic cells.

Day4Energy

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Day4Energy develops proprietary photovoltaic (PV)

technology solutions enabling affordable, efficient grid-connected PV

energy systems. Highly efficient solar cells, BIPV applications, solar

concentrator technology.

Flagsol

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Parabolic trough technology.

Xtreme Energetics

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Solar ‘panels’ that blend solar concentration and tracking with

transparent transistor technology. Can be visually well integrated on buildings.

Green & Gold Energy

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Innovative and ground breaking SunBall™. Incorporating a high efficiency (>30%) solar energy concentrator, automatic dawn to dusk Max kWh Tracking™ internal 2 axis tracking system and Cool PV™ low operational PV cell temperature.

Flabeg

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High-precision parabolic mirrors for solar power installations.

Energy Innovations

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Dual-axis solar tracking with primary and secondary concentrators and other innovations.

Solar Systems

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Dish concentrator PV systems.

Schott Solar

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Receivers for solar thermal power plants.

Prism Solar Technologies

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Prism Solar Technologies, Inc. manufactures a new type of photovoltaic module that uses transparent holographic optical elements in its design. This innovative, patented holographic technology, collects and spectrally selects useful wavelengths from the sun and focuses them onto the cell to create electricity.

Whitfield Solar

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A developer of low cost solar concentrators.

BrightSource Energy

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BrightSource Energy develops utility-scale solar power

projects that utilize its unique, proprietary solar technology, Luz DPT

(Distributed Power Towers) 550, to convert sunlight to electricity.

Amonix

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Amonix designs and manufactures high performance one-sun and high-concentration solar cells and systems. Amonix

is well positioned in three PV market segments: Large Utility-Scale Electric

Power: to electrify homes and villages throughout the world,

Industrial OFF-GRID: for multi-purpose government and commercial wireless

communications, Space: Power for Space Satellites

Concentrix Solar

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Under the name FLATCON®, we offer complete, turnkey concentrator photovoltaic power plants on the commercial level.

Solar Millenium

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Construction and operation of large-scale solar

thermal power plants. Specialised in parabolic trough and solar chimney power plants.

Stellaris

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Stellaris’ concentrating photovoltaic glazing (CPG) uses passive optics to concentrate light, reducing the amount of photovoltaic material required and greatly reducing the cost of photovoltaic modules and building-integrated systems.

Zenith Solar

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Modular and easily scalable high concentration photovoltaic systems. The system provides high electrical output concurrently with heat at temperatures ranging from those associated with domestic hot water to those suited to process heat – that can address vertical cogeneration applications.