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large number of PV power plants.With master slave operation, symmetry SolFocus customer EMPE Solar will use
Siemens’ SINVERT 1700 MS, four units of monitoring and VAr control, Siemens the SF-1100S in its 10 megawatt utility-
420kVA act as a single 1.7MVA PV SINVERT covers the current and future scale project, planned to be the largest
inverter. The combination of up to four recommendations of a reliable and almost deployment of CPV technology in Europe.
single inverters working together maintenance-free operation. The SF-1100S uses approximately
maximises performance, yield and 1/1,000th of the active, expensive solar
availability. cell material compared to traditional
Solfocus
photovoltaic panels.
1100S CPV Technology The cells used in SolFocus CPV systems
have over twice the efficiency of
SolFocus with its Concentrator traditional silicon cells accelerating the
Photovoltaic (CPV) technology claims to trajectory for solar energy to reach cost
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achieve panel efficiencies of 25 percent parity with fossil fuels.
and is claiming to produce the highest
Less service labour and down-times mean energy density and highest energy yield SolFocus integrates its CPV panels with
less cost in the return on investment of photovoltaic systems available today. its advanced tracking system that
equation in a PV power plant that requires The SF-1100S-CPV-28 Concentrator continuously aligns the solar array with
a minimum of maintenance care. The Photovoltaic system solution combines direct sunlight throughout the day as the
most reliable and field-proven high-efficiency solar cells (approaching 40 sun moves across the sky. The tracking
-pv-management.com components, such as modules and their percent) and advanced optics to provide technology has been developed
mounting structures, cabling and energy solutions which are scalable, specifically for integration with SolFocus’
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combiner boxes as well as the inverters dependable and capable of delivering on SF-1100 CPV panels, providing a highly
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with their containers and the whole the promise of low-cost, clean, renewable integrated and performance-optimized
medium voltage equipment are critical. To energy. The company’s CPV design system. The tracking capability of the SF-
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control these complex power plants, an employs a system of reflective optics to 1000S results in energy generation which
industrial-grade supervision system is concentrate sunlight 500 times onto is an ideal match to peak demand
necessary. Equipped with features like small, highly efficient solar cells. periods.
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