Semiconductor Today, October 15th, 2012 Solar Junction of San Jose, CA, USA, which manufactures III-V multi-junction solar cells for concentrated photovoltaics (CPV), has set raised its own world record for the energy conversion efficiency of a commercial-ready production solar cell, from 43.5% at 418 suns (achieved in April 2011) to 44% at 947 suns now,…
IMS Research, September 26th, 2012 The concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) market is forecast to double in 2012 and reach almost 90 MW or $325 million, according to a new report from IMS Research (recently acquired by IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS)). Furthermore, IMS Research predicts installations of this emerging technology will grow rapidly over the next five…
Lux Research, June 26th, 2012 According to a new report from Lux Research, “Putting High‐Concentrating Photovoltaics into Focus,” the concentrated PV market will expand extensively in the next five years. The market for high-concentrating photovoltaics (HCPV), also known as concentrated photovoltaics (CPV), will be worth $1.6 billion by 2017. The June 26 report claims that…
Sharp, May 31st, 2012 Developed within the NGCPV project by Japan’s SHARP, achieves world record for PV energy conversion, 43.5% efficiency at 306 suns. This conversion efficiency record has been confirmed by NGCPV participant, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy (one of the several organizatiosn around the world that officially certifies energy conversion efficiency measurementsin solar…
Nature Photonics, Feb 2012 In its February issue Nature Photonics, the prestigious scientific journal, publishes a review article on the Intermediate Band Solar Cell (IBSC), one of the so-called 3rd generation PV concepts with the potential to boost conversion efficiency, now being a topic of reserarch of solid state phyiscs labs worldwide. Such as multijunction…
Miyazaki, 2-4 Dec. 2011 From Dec 2nd to 4th, the first semester meeting of the “New Generation CPV” (NGCPV) Project was held in Miyazaki (Japan). Most spectacular result presented, was that of SHARP of a 43.2% efficient cell at 413 suns. Also presented the week before at PVSEC-21 in Fukuoka, SHARP reserachers report this result…
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, June 14th, 2011 On past 14th and 15th of June the kick-off meeting of the “New Generation CPV” (NGCPV) Project was held at the Instituto de Energía Solar of Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Partly funded jointly by NEDO (Japan’s New Energy and Development Technological Organization) and the European Commission, the meeting…
PV Insider, August 16th, 2010 Italian legislation has so far left CPV out in the cold. But that is set to change next year writes Jason Deign with the introduction of feed-in tariffs that could create an important new market for the industry. Italian legislation has so far left CPV out in the cold. But…
Business Wire, April 14, 2011 Solar Junction, a developer of high efficiency multi-junction cells for the concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) market, today announced it has set a world-record for 43.5 percent efficiency on a commercial-ready production cell. This achievement was, in part, supported under the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) PV Incubator Program, managed through DOE’s…
PV Insider, August 16th, 2010 Italian legislation has so far left CPV out in the cold. But that is set to change next year writes Jason Deign with the introduction of feed-in tariffs that could create an important new market for the industry. Italian legislation has so far left CPV out in the cold. But…
