Increasing power and energy in amonix CPV solar power plants

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 213-218

  Kinsey, Geoffrey S ^a   Nayak, Aditya ^a   Liu, Mingguo ^a   Garboushian, Vahan ^a  

^a Amonix Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Concentrating photovoltaics (CPV); energy prediction; multijunction

Indexed keywords

AC SYSTEMS; CAPACITY FACTORS; COST BENEFITS; ECONOMIES OF SCALE; ELECTRICAL GRIDS; ELECTRICITY COSTS; ENERGY MODELING; ENERGY PREDICTION; ENERGY YIELDS; HIGH CONCENTRATION; HIGH ENERGY; MULTIJUNCTION; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAICS;

SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER PLANTS;

COSTS;

EID: 84865155941     PISSN: 21563381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2011.2172775     Document Type: Article

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