GreenVolts scores Solar Project and Investment from Avista
Avista makes strategic investment in GreenVolts
Avista Corporation (NYSE:AVA) has chosen GreenVolts for a demonstration High Concentration PhotoVoltaics (HCPV) project. The official press release is Avista Chooses GreenVolts for Utility Scale Solar Trial. Although this news was tipped in the Business 2.0 Magazine article, Big Solar's day in the sun, the strategic investment by Avista in GreenVolts for an undisclosed amount is new.
This summer, GreenVolts will site their solar electric solution at Avista’s Clean Energy Test Site located in Rathdrum, Idaho per Solar test plant planned for Rathdrum and just across the border from
In the same article, Ecolite Manufacturing Co. said it will produce the systems for GreenVolts, and the Avista project will be sized at about 2.4kWp (kiloWatt- peak) perhaps adjusted for Idaho's insolation? Per Ed Caferro, CEO of Ecolite and an investor in GreenVolts:
Bids are out for several megawatts' worth of the systems, and Caferro expects to make about 400 monthly in about a year.
Here are some exclusive photos courtesy of GreenVolts showing a prototype CarouSol and an Off-Axis Microdish power cell.
GreenVolts has excelled at refining their message and positioning since last year’s California Clean Tech Open (CCTO) and the 19th NREL Industry Growth Forum:
GreenVolts is a solar power company providing affordable, clean energy alternatives for utility companies. The company's patent-pending technology produces a superior photovoltaic collector that, when coupled with a tracking mechanism, is expected to deliver energy at a cost that is competitive with peak natural gas alternatives. The size and flexibility of the company's system allow it to be placed nearer to the demand than other alternatives, helping utility companies avoid constructing costly transmission lines or having to upgrade existing power grids.
You can tap into my daisy chain of posts about GreenVolts by visiting the last one, GreenVolts CEO Bob Cart addresses California Clean Tech Open 2007 Kick-off Event, or by using the search label, GreenVolts.
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Labels: Avista, CCTO, GreenVolts
posted by Edgar A. Gunther at 11:01 AM
4 Comments:
Thanks for your good and detailed reporting. Those of us who can't make it to such events are very appreciative that you share them here.
Thanks for all the great information Gunther, and especially for the high resolution images.
And those photos were so good, GreenVolts requested some decimation in a polite way - so I agreed. The decimated versions are now in the post.
I still don't see how they can avoid missing out on a lot of hours during sun up and sundown. With the flat system, each unit will shade the one behind it until the sun is about at 45 degrees, no? Otherwise, they'll have to space them and there goes the compact argument.
Do you have any additional diagrams or pictures showing how they will overcome this shading?
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