Skyline Solar VTA Update

[San Jose, California USA]

It’s all in the tracking.

After many rainy days, the sun broke out last Saturday before Noon, and I was solar powered for a Silicon Valley tour. After taking pictures of the First Solar skunk works, I decided to visit the Skyline Solar, Inc. High Gain Solar (HGS) Project at the Cerone Division of the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA).

Skyline Solar Arizona Test Site

~2.2 kW (kiloWatt) system at the Tucson Electric Power Solar Test Field.

When I heard Skyline Solar, Inc. mentioned an Arizona test site during their presentation at Dow Jones Alternative Energy Innovations Fall 2009, I was all over it. Later, I found BARKER MORRISSEY Contracting had installed a Skyline Solar High Gain Solar (HGS) Array at the Tucson Electric Power (TEP) Solar Test Field on East Irvington Road in Tucson, Arizona USA. As noted in Skyline Solar Test Site: The project included the detailed installation of Skyline's single axis tracker. This tracker consists of highly reflective metal sheets on top of reflective racks that direct light to Skyline's High Gain Solar

Solar Light Flashes: 24th EU PVSEC Edition

Select Photovoltaic News Tidbits from the 24th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition.

It's been like forever (1 year, 8 months, 10 days) since my last Solar Light Flashes. I've always planned to resurrect the haphazard post. Twitter delayed the return but sometimes 140 characters are insufficient. centrotherm photovoltaics AG (ETR:CTN) Only the Photovoltaic (PV) Industry plasters roadmaps or manufacturing costs on exhibition stand signage. The last official centrotherm CIGS (copper indium gallium diselenide) news was “Success in the thin film division: centrotherm photovoltaics achieves 13 percent efficiency for mass production”. Tom Cheyney chatted with centrotherm in “EU PVSEC short takes: Talking CIGS turnkey, eyeballing a Nanosolar panel, and more” at PV-tech.org. Read More >>

In Search of Skyline Solar – Part 3

[San Jose, California USA] High Gain Solar (HGS) power plant dedication including HGS module ratings. After In Search of Skyline Solar – Part 2, I managed to attend the dedication of the Skyline Solar High Gain Solar (HGS) power plant at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) Cerone Bus Maintenance and Operations Division a while back on Friday, May 15, 2009. Funny thing was that the VTA Public Information Officer, not Skyline Solar, extended the invitation although the dedication was open to the public. “Skyline Solar Plans Launch of First Product” by Ucilia Wang

In Search of Skyline Solar – Part 2

[San Jose, California USA] Pilot High Gain Solar (HGS) Project at the Cerone Division of the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA). Project and electricity free to VTA! HGS concentrating issue at the open end of the trough? From Skyline Solar's HGS Pilot Project at VTA Cerone Division My In Search of Skyline Solar post provided a preview of last Monday’s “Skyline Solar Emerges from Stealth after Achieving Key Customer, Development and Financing Milestones” press release. This was the first I heard of the 24-30 kW (kilowatt) Demonstration Project at the VTA. Even my

In Search of Skyline Solar

[Mountain View, California USA] Finding the concentrating photovoltaic (PV) solar collector. Skyline Solar CEO Bob MacDonald presenting at Dow Jones Alternative Energy Innovations Spring 2009 next week. Since posting Skyline Solar Dawn, I’ve been keen on learning more about Skyline Solar’s High Gain Silicon PV solution. Some PV insiders may have followed my cryptic closing comment, The Truth is Out There. As I understand it, the slide below showing the Skyline Solar solution was presented by Doug Rose with SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ:SPWRA, NASDAQ:SPWRB) at the Solar Power International 2008 State-of-the-Art CPV

Skyline Solar Dawn

From PHOTON's 1st PV Start-up Conference [San Francisco, California USA] Skyline Solar CEO Bob MacDonald presents at PHOTON's 1st PV Start-up Conference. Stealth mode Skyline Solar, Inc. presented Tuesday, December 2, 2008, on the first day of PHOTON‘s Searching for the »Second Solar« Conference Series USA. Mr. MacDonald provided a big picture view of Skyline Solar’s plans to accelerate the time to residential and wholesale grid parity by leveraging aluminum to replace silicon though concentration and tracking. Using