EMCORE: CPV Questions for the Fiscal 2009 First Quarter Conference Call

Open issues about Terrestrial Concentrator PhotoVoltaic (CPV) projects and status. Way after the market close on Monday February 9, 2009, at 10:47 pm EST, EMCORE Corporation (NASDAQ:EMKR) released “EMCORE Corporation Announces Preliminary Unaudited Results for Its First Quarter Ended December 31, 2008”. However, neither the earning release nor the webcast from the 11th Annual Needham Growth Stock Conference on January 6, 2009, addresses the “project claims without update as 2008 closes” from my EMCORE Concentrator PhotoVoltaic Encore post. Since the year end 2008 post, I have been trying without result

EMCORE Concentrator PhotoVoltaic Encore

Waiting for Gen-III in the second half of 2009 but better watch the trademark! “EMCORE Deploys First Concentrator Solar Photovoltaic System in China with the XinAo Group” attracted my attention the week before Thanksgiving Day. It took two weeks to confirm the 50 kilowatt (kW) test and evaluation system installation from EMCORE Corporation (NASDAQ:EMKR) is located somewhere near the XinAo Group Head Office (web address found on ENF.cn) in Langfang, Hebei Province, China, about 50 km (kilometers) southeast of Beijing.

ISFOC First Phase 1.7 MegaWatt Installations Underway

Tracking progress by Concentrating PhotoVoltaic (CPV) companies SolFocus, Concentrix Solar, and Isofotón.

On January 15, 2008, with SolFocus First to Install Solar Array for 3 MW Spanish CPV Project, SolFocus, Inc. and ISFOC, Instituto de Sistemas Fotovoltaicos de Concentración S.A. or Institute of Concentration Photovoltaics Systems, announced the completion of the first CPV solar array for the 3MW (MegaWatt) ISFOC project. For background on ISFOC, please see ISFOC 1.3MW CPV Power Plant tenders made public.

First SolFocus array at Puertollano, Castilla La Mancha – Spain… Read More >>

Flawed EMCORE Concentrator PhotoVoltaic System deal with the Pod Generating Group?

The Pod Generating Group plans a risky High Concentration PhotoVoltaic System deployment in Northern Ontario Canada

Within the span of a week, EMCORE Corporation (NASDAQ:EMKR) announced a pair of utility scale High Concentration PhotoVoltaic (HCPV) projects in Canada and South Korea:

EMCORE Corporation enters into an Agreement to supply 60MW of Terrestrial Solar Power Systems in Ontario, CanadaEMCORE Corporation To Supply 20 Megawatts Of Concentrating Solar Photovoltaic Systems in South Korea

On the surface, these seem like celebratory milestone events for Concentrator PhotoVoltaics (CPV). However, HCPV systems require direct solar radiation (irradiance) for operation =at all=. If a cloud passes overhead or the sky is overcast blocking direct sunlight