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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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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.

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SPI 09: Concentrating PhotoVoltaics Highlights

CPV News from MASDAR trumps Solar Power International 09.

I was looking forward to the SPI 09 Concentrating Photovoltaics (CPV) session moderated by Greentech Media Senior Analyst Eric Wesoff. For once, I had a few questions prepared in advance. When I sat down, I thought I was being mercenary sitting right next to the microphone front and center. However, as questions were opened to the floor, I still had to rush to beat out two other inquisitors to ask the first question.

SolFocus, Inc.
Q: Ed Gunther (moi!) said: “I have a question for Mr. Crowley. I was wondering if you could give us an update on the project with the Samaras Group. I believe it was supposed to start installing in the summer, and there’s supposed be power delivery by

   

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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GreenWing Energy interview about the SolFocus CPV Agreement

Understanding GreenWing Energy’s commitment to solar and SolFocus Concentrator Photovoltaic (CPV) systems.

From SolFocus 8.4kW SF-1100S-CPV-28 system

“GreenWing Energy signs agreement with SolFocus for utility scale deployments of CPV” by Emma Hughes at PV-tech.org echoed my concerns when I first saw this announcement:
Financial details of the agreement, location of the projects, and timing [...]

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Intersolar North America

[San Francisco, California USA]
Observing the obvious.
I managed to spend some time at Intersolar North America 2009 this week in San Francisco.
Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMAT)

From Intersolar North America

The big news was US President Barack Obama somehow finding the time to visit Applied Materials before the Major League Baseball 2009 All-Star Game in St. Louis, Missouri. A [...]

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SolFocus scales CPV Series C to $77.6 Million

Ramping and Scaling Concentrator PhotoVoltaic (CPV) Systems. Expanding manufacturing from 0.5 MW (MegaWatt) in 2008, to over 10 MW shipped in 2009, and 50 MW capacity by 2011.
Well, it is clear anyone reporting on Tuesday’s “Haywood Dorland Energy Capital, LLC, Invests in SolFocus, Inc., the Leading Developer of Advanced Concentrator PV Solar Technologies” didn’t [...]