New Concentration Solar Power Module

The University of Lleida (UdL) of Spain has created a new thermal-photovoltaic modular system. The system has been developed by Daniel Chemisana, a member of the research group in Agrometeorology and Energy for Environment, leaded by UdL lecturers Manel Ibáñez and Joan Ignasi Rosell.

This thermal-photovoltaic modular system has a solar concentration of 10 suns, that is, it only needs a tenth part of a standard system’s active surface to produce the same energy, be it electricity, heat, or both simultaneously. Besides the reduction in the surface of used solar cells and the cost reduction this implies, this new technology can generate cold by connecting a heat pump to the system.

read more about it at: Concentration Solar Power Module

Source: ScienceDaily

May 12, 2009