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It is difficult to gauge the state of the concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) industry: Amongst system manufacturers, GreenVolts has folded and Amonix scaled back, but Soitec has announced big, bold plans. Although this indicates that life can be tough in the CPV industry, the sector should grow at a healthy rate according to research manager Sam Wilkinson from IHS, who has been talking to Richard Stevenson about the current state and prospects for this technology.
CPV looks set for a brighter future
Amonix claims to have raised the record for module efficiency to 36 percent, using cells from Spectrolab