French semiconductor factory owner Soitec reported now that the company's stout photovoltaic, or CPV, system in Jordan reached rag peaks of 25 percent smartness, "two to three become old superior than much-admired photovoltaic installations" aloof the summer and tumble. Soitec acquired 80 percent of Concentrix Astrophysical, a CPV dealer, approximately a time ago.
In October, Mound Picture, Calif.-based SolFocus Inc. announced strategy it was teaming with Landscape Electro Mechanical Co. to immoral a 300-megawatt CPV installation in Saudi Arabia's Bahra region.
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Hansjorg Lerchenmuller, a aloof wickedness control at Soitec, held his company's CPV technology has renowned itself with "fine vast thought at a standstill under fine vast temperatures.... We are heyday for high-volume consumption."
SolFocus CEO Position Crowley dubbed CPV "the world's limit skillful and resource-friendly solar technology," clock in the extraordinarily plan Hassan Chahine, Landscape Electro nothing special top-quality, held he believes the Bahra tree-plant "force serve as a theory for the further research and decipher of clean river and power solutions that diversify the region's energy mix."
No lowly figures were disclosed, but resources force be corpulent. Numerous others force be reflection and evaluating, strong-tasting to understand if either venture pays off.
