Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency
  • Year: 2005
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue: 3

Time to concentrate - Why the PV world is starting to focus on concentrating technologies

  • Author:
  • Jackie Jones
  • Total Page Count: 8
  • Page Number: 17 to 24

Renewable Energy World

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Abstract

Concentrating light on a solar cell greatly increases its output. With improvements in technology now starting to offer efficiencies of 38%, the concentrating PV sector says that US$3/W systems are just a couple of years away. Jackie Jones reports.