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High Concentrator PhotoVoltaics efficiencies: Present status and forecast

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  • Pérez-Higueras, P.
  • Muñoz, E.
  • Almonacid, G.
  • Vidal, P.G.

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Photovoltaic devices are in a mature technological stage with a long and wide field experience; but if this source of energy wants to compete against other renewable energy sources or even to get into the traditional energy generation system, it is necessary a novel scientific progress in the behavior of these photovoltaic systems. In this challenge is where High Concentrator Photovoltaic technology can have a main role, as it has proved, in the last researches published, to have the potential to achieve high levels of energy conversion performance. In this paper, it is described a brief summary of the CPV state of the art, as well as it is forecast some efficiencies values up to 2015, where a CPV module could reach 40% of efficiency, while the global CPV system could achieve approximately a 32%.

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  • Pérez-Higueras, P. & Muñoz, E. & Almonacid, G. & Vidal, P.G., 2011. "High Concentrator PhotoVoltaics efficiencies: Present status and forecast," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 15(4), pages 1810-1815, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:rensus:v:15:y:2011:i:4:p:1810-1815
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