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Victor Valley College Solar Power Plant Celebration

1 MegaWatt (MW) Concentrating PhotoVoltaic (CPV) plant built by SolFocus is the largest CPV installation in the Americas.

VVC POWERED BY CPV was the theme of the Grand Opening Celebration hosted by Victor Valley College (VVC) and SolFocus, Inc. on site Tuesday, May 25, 2010. I covered the project details earlier in VVC installing SolFocus CPV Solar Plant.

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Chevron breaks ground on Concentrix Solar CPV project

1 MegaWatt (MW) Concentrator PhotoVoltaic (CPV) plant is a pilot demonstration for a period of five years.

Concentrix Solar plans to build a US manufacturing facility.

“New Mexico puts old mine to solar use” by Candace Lombardi at the CNET news.com Green Tech Blog presaged the event. Although I contacted the Communications Office of New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, the Concentrix Solar division of the Soitec Group (EPA:SOI), Chevron Technology Ventures (CTV), and Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX), the

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Harry Reid turns on Amonix Concentrated Photovoltaic Solar Plant

308 kW (kiloWatt) DC CPV (Concentrator Photovoltaic) Plant appears to have an installed cost of just over $6 per Watt.

Amonix expects to choose a Nevada manufacturing site in the next few weeks with plans to be in operation by yearend 2010.

On Saturday in Henderson, Nevada USA, “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid “Flips the Switch” on Amonix Concentrated Photovoltaic Solar Plant at Southern Nevada Water Treatment Facility” was supposed to mark the ceremonial start of electricity production.

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VVC installing SolFocus CPV Solar Plant

Victor Valley College (VVC) invests $4.66 Million in a Solar Generating Facility.

The 1 MegaWatt (MW) Concentrator Photovoltaic (CPV) system has an installed cost of $4.66 per AC Watt and will deliver electricity at 8.5 cents per kiloWatt-hour before incentives.

“VVC builds innovative solar energy facility” by Natasha Lindstrom for the Victorville Daily Press broke the story before the SolFocus, Inc. press release, “Victor Valley College Goes Solar with SolFocus Power Plant”, took it mainstream.

   

24th EU PVSEC: 2009 Becquerel Prize Awarded

[Hamburg, Germany]

From 24th EU PVSEC

Dr. Andreas Bett awarded the 17th Becquerel Prize for the successful development of photovoltaic concentrator technology.
The Prize is named after French physicist Alexandre Edmond Becquerel (1820-1891) who discovered the photovoltaic effect in 1839 at age 19.
During the opening session of the 24th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, Dr. Andreas [...]

   

Mesa Energy picks SolFocus for 92 kiloWatt CPV Installation

Concentrator Photovoltaic (CPV) Showcase project using SolFocus has an installed cost of $6.04 per Watt (W).
When I first saw “SolFocus Receives Award from National Renewable Energy Laboratory”, I missed the subheading, “City of Mesa, Arizona to Serve as First Showcase of Technology Developed in the DOE/NREL PV Incubator Program”.
Only later in Google Alerts did [...]

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GreenVolts GV1: Demolition Man

[Byron, California USA]

From GreenVolts GV1: Demolition Man

Concentrating Photovoltaic (CPV) systems firm demolishes CarouSol trackers.
CarouSol is dead. Long live GreenVolts?
I was pushed the press release, “GreenVolts Names Solar and High Tech Industry Veteran as Vice President of Engineering”, on Wednesday. My first thought was what’s going on at GV1?
Since I happened, alright arranged, to be near [...]