Abstract
Multijunction solar cells provide high-performance technology pathways leading to potentially low-cost electricity generated from concentrated sunlight. The National Center for Photovoltaics at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory has funded different III-V multijunction solar cell technologies and various solar concentration approaches. Within this group of projects, III-V solar cellefficiencies of 41% are close at hand and will likely be reported in these conference proceedings. Companies with well-developed solar concentrator structures foresee installed system costs of $3/watt--half of today's costs--within the next 2 to 5 years as these high-efficiency photovoltaic technologies are incorporated into their concentrator photovoltaic systems. These technology improvementsare timely as new large-scale multi-megawatt markets, appropriate for high performance PV concentrators, open around the world.
| Original language | American English |
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| Number of pages | 6 |
| State | Published - 2006 |
| Event | 2006 IEEE 4th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (WCPEC-4) - Waikoloa, Hawaii Duration: 7 May 2006 → 12 May 2006 |
Conference
| Conference | 2006 IEEE 4th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (WCPEC-4) |
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| City | Waikoloa, Hawaii |
| Period | 7/05/06 → 12/05/06 |
NREL Publication Number
- NREL/CP-520-39791
Keywords
- high-performance concentrator
- large-scale
- low-cost electricity
- multi-megawatt
- multijunction
- PV
- solar cells
