Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Summit San Francisco

28/01/2008 - 29/07/2008, San Francisco

The CSP Summit based in San Francisco dealt with the issues that solar companies with CSP projects need to deal with including transmission capacity grid conextion working with utilities storage ITC and much more

CPV Intelligence Brief 25 Apr – 8 May 2012

By ksdicks on May 8, 2012

Suncore pursues aggressive cost reduction points Companies mentioned: Suncore, Emcore, Semprius, and MIT

 

CPV Intelligence Brief 25 Apr – 8 May 2012
 
Suncore pursues aggressive cost reduction points
 
Emcore’s Chinese joint venture, Suncore Photovoltaics, reported an operating loss of $0.2 million for the quarter. However, due to the increased demand from space programs and terrestrial CPV solar cells from both Suncore and other customers, Emcore projects a significant increase in demand of the wafer volumes going through our solar cell fab over the next several months. 
 
Suncore established its high-volume manufacturing capacity in its new facility in Huainan City, which had a targeted capacity of 200 megawatts of CPV modules per annum. Suncore commenced the production in February for the 50-megawatt CPV system order. 
 
“Thanks to the establishment of its manufacturing infrastructure and engineering team, Suncore is pursuing very aggressive cost reduction points while also producing products to meet these large purchase orders,” said company director Hong Q. Hou. 
 
He said that deployment of CPV in the US has been challenging to secure project financing in the current economic environment. But Emcore did close project financing for a 2-megawatt distributed generation solar project in Albuquerque. Construction will start in early June, and the project is expected to be completed by the end of this calendar year. 
 
“Regarding our improved CPV design for commercial rooftop applications, we have entered into the qualification and certification phase, and expect the general availability by the end of September for the newly designed low-cost rooftop CPV product,” said Hong Hou.
 
Semprius bags Top 10 MIT ranking
 
CPV technology developed by North Carolina-based Semprius has been selected by MIT Technology Review for its TR10, an annual list of the world's top ten emerging technologies. 
 
Semprius' technology was the second listing related to solar in MIT's Top 10 list, the other being village-scale DC solar microgrids, primarily for rural areas in the developing world. 
 
"Semprius’ technology is promising because it could significantly lower the cost of solar power for utilities," said MIT Technology Review Editor in Chief and Publisher Jason Pontin. "It will be worth watching this company as it scales up its production in the coming years." 
 

Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Summit San Francisco

28/01/2008 - 29/07/2008, San Francisco

The CSP Summit based in San Francisco dealt with the issues that solar companies with CSP projects need to deal with including transmission capacity grid conextion working with utilities storage ITC and much more