SUNRGI Announces Xtreme Concentrated Photovoltaics ™ (XCPV™) at The National Energy Marketeers Association’s 11th Annual Global Energy Forum in Washington, DC
washington, dc – A new solar energy system will soon make it possible to produce electricity at a wholesale cost of 5-cents per kWh (kilowatt hour). This price is competitive with the wholesale cost of producing electricity using fossil fuels and a fraction of the current cost of solar energy.
XCPV (Xtreme Concentrated Photovoltaics), a system that concentrates the equivalent of more than 1,600 times the sun’s energy onto the world’s most efficient solar cells, was announced today by SUNRGI, a solar energy system designer and developer, at the National Energy Marketers Association’s 11th Annual Global Energy Forum in Washington, DC. The technology will enable power companies, businesses, and residents to produce electricity from solar energy at a lower cost than ever before.
“Solar Power at 5 cents per kWh would be a world-changing breakthrough,” said Craig Goodman, president, National Energy Marketers Association. “It would make solar generation of electricity as affordable as generation from coal, natural gas or other non-renewable sources, without requiring a subsidy”
“In a little more than a year we were able to develop and successfully test XCPV,” said Robert S (Bob) Block, co-founder and SUNRGI principal. “We expect the SUNRGI system to become available for both on and off-grid power applications, worldwide, in twelve to fifteen months”
What differentiates SUNRGI’s XCPV system from any other solar energy system includes: a propriety, integrated low profile technology for concentrating sunlight; a propriety technology and methodology for cooling solar cells; a low cost, modular system optimized for mass production; less land area or “roof top” requirements than typical solar energy systems; a technology roadmap for continuous improvement; low-cost field installation; and, a custom-designed system for easy operation and maintenance.
about SUNRGI
SUNRGI, with offices, in Reno, Silicon Valley and Los Angeles, is in the business of designing and developing solar energy systems. It was formed by five, experienced, entrepreneurial, inventive individuals with the goal of created a renewable energy source that would be available at fossil fuel prices. Its work has led to the development of an entirely new solar energy category: Xtreme Concentrated Photovoltaics or XCPV
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I’m really excited about this development and I think this is something we should watch for over the next year or so. What I find most exciting is that they plan to market to industrial customers, which means the technology is for real, and the product must be competitive. I sure hope it becomes available soon in the residential market too.
I’m a Photovoltaic installer in the southeastern US, with lagging sales in this region due to the long payback time of monocrysaline and polycrystaline systems the Sunrgi systems would be a godsend to the industry. Very few customers are at all concerned about Global Warming or the destiny of their children. The only thing that will sell these systems is the economics. There is so much roof space here in the south that could be utilized but PV is just not catching on here. We need CPV now.
I have not yet been able to contact Sunrgi as of yet, and wonder if anyone else has. We desperately need some industry changing questions answered so we may plan for the future.
Will this technology yield the 5 to 7 cents per kWh cost promised when installed in the Southeast?
Can this system be sized per Watt and the output be calculated with one of the calculation sites such as PVWatts?
Does this system require a tracking system or can the panels be mounted directly on the roof or a rack system?
When will it be made available to residential installers?