SolFocus Aims to beat Coal with Solar Concentrators

When you think about photovoltaic or PV systems, then generally the PV components are basically the most expensive pieces. So generating power output with the help of other less expensive materials can greatly reduce the cost of ever generated kilowatt of electricity in every hour. The SolFocus Company is bringing out a strategy plan for their CSP PV systems to gain cost that is equivalence to traditional fossil fuel energy system and that too without a price on carbon.

The CSP or concentrated solar power panels of SolFocus use two different mirrors to focus the energy of the sun 500 times before the light can be directed to a very small and highly efficient solar cell. The solar cell being very small can use much more efficient and expensive PV cells. Majority of the system, nearly 95 percent is either glass or aluminum and use the traditional, not so expensive and easy to find materials that are acquired from the recycled sources. This CSP PV system is a totally enclosed system in order to keep everything clean as you can imagine the system cleaning nearly 500 tiny mirrors every month. The material cost is very low apart from the maintenance cost but the efficiency offered is very high. This CSP PV system looks like a cheap solar system. Their primary efforts recommend that they might include the lowest cradle to grave carbon of any energy options that are currently available. This system would make SolFocus a cost effective option to solar electricity.

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