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sunlight in a 365 day year, from a PV energy source incorporated into the top of the lamp so it does not look like a solar powered light. And the load includes welcomed lighting levels and communication with adjoining solar lights. In 2003, the core software engine won the IT SECRETS Award in Australia for Industrial and Commercial software.
The software can process massive amounts of data and come up with fast, innovative and simple outcomes. In this application, predictive data is added to the package to achieve the practical energy management outcomes.
large amounts of past and predictive data into simple and practical outcomes.
The classic solar panel connected to a diode isolated battery will run public lighting until the battery is exhausted or the sun trips the photovoltaic cells and the lights turn off. Yes, by increasing the size of the solar panel and/or the battery capacity does resolve the situation.
Sadly, the bigger and more obvious the solar panel and/or the battery, the greater the risk for damage and/or stealing. Minimising the solar panel and battery so they effective ‘do not exist’, reduces the risk of being damaged or removed. but the light still has to work, 365 nights of the year.
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How do customers benefit ? The solar light system works! Video from the onboard camera systems has already been recorded as evidence and is soon to be used in a Children’s Court case in support of Police investigations
MiaSolé modules are the only commercially available solar products manufactured in this manner. Sputtering has proven inherent characteristics of uniformity and control, which enables high-throughput processing, thereby reducing manufacturing time and costs of production. MiaSolé’s manufacturing process from rolled stainless steel to tested cell, has the shortest cycle time of any solar manufacturer (40 min.). Couple that with cross-web uniformity of
MiaSolé is in full commercial production with a 10.5% product today. In January 2011, MiaSolé will complete UL certification and begin shipping a 12% module. MiaSolé will ship 6.5MW in the first half of this year and expects to ship 22MW in 2010. The company’s products are designed for utilities and independent power producers to use in industrial scale deployments such as large-scale rooftop and ground mount installations.
Thin Film Innovation
While we wait for the ‘perpetual motion machine’, then we have to appreciate that stand alone solar energy collection, storage and load delivery management is based on using a finite resource, wisely. And it needs to be appreciated that the collection, storage and load delivery management are all dynamic. This is where the award winning IT SECRETS software comes into play, condensing
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Copper Indium Gallium Selenide (CIGS)
MiaSolé is a pioneer and leading developer of copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic solar panels. Through a distinctive manufacturing process, MiaSolé has validated CIGS as the highest efficiency thin film chemistry for solar panels in the world - thus advancing the extraordinary potential for harnessing solar power as a competitive, sustainable energy source. MiaSolé’s unique manufacturing process applies CIGS on a flexible stainless steel substrate, one meter wide by fifty microns thick.
Each layer of the device is deposited through a high rate sputtering process. After deposition, a proprietary collection grid is applied to the surface of the device which maximizes electron capture.
Unlike other CIGS manufacturers, MiaSolé does not need to interrupt the process for selenization and annealing. The innovative sputtering equipment is able to perform all required tasks insitu under continuous processing, thus reducing handling (losses) and queue time demanded of “batch” processing.
A sputtered junction layer also eliminates the need for the more typical plating process (batch) used in competitive products. Aside from eliminating the handling and queue times mentioned previously, sputtering avoids costly disposal of hazardous waste inherent in a plating process.
The continuous process sputtering equipment applies each discrete material to the substrate in an exact sequence under specific conditions. This is accomplished in an uninterrupted vacuum environment. Each layer is fully characterized and modulated to meet very precise specifications. MiaSolé has designed a sputter system that enables the visibility and control to manage these processes throughout the two hundred hours of continuous deposition.
www.solar-pv-management.com Issue V 2010
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