The Photovoltaic: Concentrating Photovoltaic

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But we're unlikely to see any radical leaps in these areas. There are also a number of areas in active research, primarily involving concentrating solar power—technologies that focus sunlight on highly efficient (but highly expensive) photovoltaic devices. World’s largest concentrated solar power plant, powered by the Saharan sun, set to help renewables provide almost half the country’s energy by 2020 The Moroccan city of Ouarzazate is used to big productions. On the edge of the Sahara desert and the As part of Secretary John Kerry's Climate and Clean Energy Investment Forum, the Overseas Private Investment Corp. signed an agreement with U.S. based energy developer SolarReserve and ACWA Power, recognizing OPIC's $400 million commitment of debt Morocco will host the world’s largest concentrated solar power plant at the edge of the Sahara desert, to help generate renewable electricity which will power nearly half of the country by 2020. The first phase of the project, a 160 MW power plant called concentrating photovoltaics (CPV) usually involves focusing sunlight onto high-efficiency and very expensive multi-junction solar cells, and also requires solar trackers. By matching up less expensive solar cells with an optical device that concentrates Cole Mellino for EcoWatch: Morocco imports 97 percent of its energy, and yet it has one of the highest rates of solarinsolation of any country—about 3,000 hours of sunshine per year, according to the Solar GCC Alliance. To put that in perspective, the .

As PV Magazine notes, it is clear that in order to supply electricity during these non-daylight hours the company will need to incorporate some form of energy storage, which means either a concentrating solar power (CSP) project with molten salt storage or Soitec's concentrated solar technology, which differs from the common silicon panels seen on residential rooftops and big solar farms, showed such promising advances in efficiency during laboratory tests that its solar factory in San Diego was underwritten Market Research Store releases a new market research report "Global Molten Salt Solar Energy Thermal Storage and Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Market 2010 Forecast to Industry Size, Shares, Strategies, Trends, and Growth 2016" to add to its collection of Morocco decided to address this problem by exploiting its most plentiful natural resource. The huge Ouarzazate solar plant uses concentrated solar power technology. Instead of photovoltaic panels like you see on many roofs or strapped to the backpacks of .