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Concentrated Photovoltaics |
Cool
Earth
USA |
Our technology incorporates inflated photovoltaic collectors to
enable solar energy farming at well below the cost of coal and other
non-renewable energy sources. |
Silicon Valley
Solar
USA |
Flat plate concentrator solar modules. |
Sunengy
USA |
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. |
JX Crystals
USA |
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. |
Xtreme Energetics
USA |
Solar 'panels' that blend solar concentration and tracking with
transparent transistor technology. Can be visually well integrated on buildings. |
Energy Innovations
USA |
Dual-axis solar tracking with primary and secondary concentrators and other innovations. |
Prism Solar
Technologies
USA |
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. |
Amonix
USA | 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 |
Stellaris
USA | 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. |
Entech Solar
USA | 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. |
Daystar
Technologies
USA | DayStar’s 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. |
SolFocus
USA | SolFocus combines the efficiency of triple-junction solar cells with the power of tailored imaging optics. |
Pacific Solar Tech
USA, China |
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). |
GreenVolts
USA |
Founded in 2005 to deliver solar power at fossil fuel costs. The company’s
breakthrough high concentration photovoltaic technology efficiently integrates
tracking and optics into a system that dramatically lowers energy cost. |
Day4Energy
Canada | Day4Energy develops proprietary photovoltaic (PV)
technology solutions enabling affordable, efficient grid-connected PV
energy systems. Highly efficient solar cells, BIPV applications, solar
concentrator technology. |
Green & Gold
Energy
Australia | 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. |
Solar Systems
Australia | Dish concentrator PV systems. |
Whitfield Solar
UK | A developer of low cost solar concentrators. |
Concentrated Solar Thermal Systems |
Ecosystem Solar Electric
USA | Ecosystem Solar Electric Corp. is an affiliate of Solar MW Energy, Inc.
These special purpose entities are established and positioned as the Developer
and Operator of solar thermal electric hybrid power plants, on behalf of
facilities' owners. |
Infinia
USA | 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. |
Industrial Solar Technology Corporation
USA | IST trough systems operate automatically at high efficiency with minimal maintenance. |
Solargenix Energy
USA | 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, ... |
Ausra
USA | Ausra offers solar thermal electric power stations that
provide large-scale low-cost, reliable, renewable energy. Ausra's technology is proven, easily manufactured and installed, and scalable to high volume. |
Edtek
USA | EDTEK is developing a line of unique modular,
cogenerating solar concentrator systems. |
Stirling Energy Systems
USA |
Electricity generation with solar dish stirling systems. |
Open Energy
USA | SunCone™ CSP (Concentrating Solar Power) utilizes
non-imaging optical cones made of reflective composites to concentrate
sunlight on rods at the base of each cone. |
Flagsol
Germany | Parabolic trough technology. |
Flabeg
Germany | High-precision parabolic mirrors for solar power installations. |
Schott Solar
Germany | Receivers for solar thermal power plants. |
BrightSource Energy
Israel | 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. |
Solel
Israel | Longstanding, field-proven experience with parabolic
trough solar thermal plants. Applications for: power plants, commercial and
industrial heating, cooling and power-generation. |
Solar Thermal Power Plant Developers |
Solar Millenium
Germany | Construction and operation of large-scale solar
thermal power plants. Specialised in parabolic trough and solar chimney power plants. |
Concentrated Solar Power - Publications, Resources |
| CSP Today |
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. |
Instituto de
Concentracion Fotovoltaica
Spain |
Development of concentrated photovoltaic plants in Spain. |
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