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Solar Energy

 

Sunlight is free and infinitely renewable. The sun's energy can be captured to generate electricity or heat through a system of panels or mirrors. Solar power converts the sun's energy into a pollution-free source of heat, light and electricity. Thanks to technological leaps in solar panels, solar power has become dramatically less expensive in the last few decades, and is now spreading through the residential suburbs and into businesses, industry and power plants.

 

Easily installable on the residential roof tops the flat panel crazy may be enough for a residential homeowner. But large homeowners, small business need to reduce the footprint and increase the productivity of the units. This requires a different solar collector. Commercial concentrating solar power plants have proven particularly effective, but solar power can be used wherever the sun shines. Homeowners, farms and businesses across the country are turning to solar to reduce their electric bills and/or heat their water using a solar thermal collector. Many farms and businesses, with their open acreage and/or large buildings, can install enough solar to pay their entire electric bill.


Highly Concentrated Photovoltaic 

Solar powered electrical generation relies on active solar technologies capturing, converting and harnessing the solar energy to provide distributed energy. Photovoltaic’s (PV) is the primary method to convert solar energy to electricity. We have found a USA based manufacturer that creates an advanced optics, Highly Concentrated PV or (H-CPV) that is 1200:1 versus the standard 500:1 producing over 38% efficiency. Coupled with a 2-Axis Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) is known to provide over 30% additional energy over flat system designs with built-in tracking accuracy and calibration of 5 modules in the solar field versus thousands for optimal field tracking and maximum solar collection.