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SolFocus completes initial phase of 3 MW Spanish CPV solar project

31 July 2008 | News From Around The Web > Power Generation | Source: redorbit.com

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SolFocus today announced the completion of its initial phase of the world's first full scale concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) solar power plant. This facility, owned by the Institute of Concentration Photovoltaic Systems (ISFOC), has been created both as a power production facility and a proving ground for CPV technology. The project demonstrates that CPV technology, with its higher efficiency and potential for cost reduction, will be an attractive alternative to other solar technologies in key high solar resource regions around the globe. This first 200 kilowatt (kW) phase of SolFocus' deployment is ready to generate clean, reliable, carbon-free electricity for the local power grid for decades to come.
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