Where will CPV technlogy be placed as we emerge out of the financial crisis and renewable energy is giving more prioity?

USA – January 07, 2009 — The pioneering CPV developers and industry leaders will be meeting on February 2nd at the CPV Summit USA, as they form part of the Super Panel The CPV Landscape – Today’s Numbers and Tomorrow’s Expectations.’

The key questions about the industry’s’ future to be discussed include:
Will the CPV industry meet the anticipated level of deployment in the next few years?
How will this industry keep moving through the economic crisis, the Spanish feed-in tariff cap and the drop in silicon prices?

What’s the long term goal for CPV?

The expert panelists will shed some new light on this subject which include SolFocus, Concentrix, Opel, Amonix, CPV Consortium, California Strategies & Former California Energy Commission Commissioner, University of California Berkeley and San Diego Gas and Electric.

The CPV industry might have expanded very rapidly but now it needs to come up with successful long-term demonstrations with current design technologies

The last couple of years have proved to be an eventful period for an emerging technology like CPV.

Even as the sector has witnessed introduction of several prototypes and commercial projects, it is being increasingly felt that the CPV technology companies currently need to prove their mettle. If on one hand, there is no doubt over the fact that the industry is on the brink of growth, on the other, the industry seems to be hindered by a number of internal and external technological and financial constraints.

These experts along with a host of other speakers, is scheduled to speak at the 2nd CPV Summit USA.

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CPV Today
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CPV technology companies have identified that they have to work on their product design and manufacturing cost in order to combat rival technologies.

USA , November 06, 2009 — The CPV industry might have expanded very rapidly but now it needs to come up with successful long-term demonstrations with current design technologies

The last couple of years have proved to be an eventful period for an emerging technology like CPV.

Even as the sector has witnessed introduction of several prototypes and commercial projects, it is being increasingly felt that the CPV technology companies currently need to prove their mettle. If on one hand, there is no doubt over the fact that the industry is on the brink of growth, on the other, the industry seems to be hindered by a number of internal and external technological and financial constraints.

From a utility’s perspective, Sacramento Muncipal Utilities District’s project manager, Advanced Renewables & Distributed Generation Technologies, Obadiah Bartholomy, believes that that the CPV industry needs real demonstrations at scale of technologies that have a clear pathway to costs per MWh that are competitive with traditional PV arrays.

“The industry also needs public datasets of performance, with 3rd party testing to provide credibility and clear expectations for operations and maintenance costs,” says Bartholomy, who is scheduled to speak at CPV Today’s 2nd CPV Summit US, to be held in San Diego (December 2-3) this year.

Bartholomy added that reliability and robustness of current designs need to be shown in arrays of 10’s to hundreds of units.

“2010 will likely see deployment of large numbers of units in Europe and further exploratory arrays in the US. Developer owned power purchase agreements may allow utilities to explore larger arrays, but technology reliability must be demonstrated,” he added.

Challenges

CPV technology companies have identified that they have to work on their product design and manufacturing cost in order to combat rival technologies.

This will be a major challenge going forward as the selling price of competing technologies has gone down considerably. Overall, this is due to weak demand and over capacity in the industry.

Bartholomy says SMUD expects the price for ‘rival technologies’ to stay low and even decline as substantial new low-cost capacity has been brought on-line.

“Our expectation is that CPV technologies will need to show clear pathways to low $/MWh costs, through demonstrated high energy yields, high reliability, and low-cost materials,” he says.

Bartholomy pointed out that the CPV industry is viewed as being higher risk than traditional PV projects currently. While the technology has been around for a long time, successful long-term demonstrations with current-design technologies are in short supply.

“As a result, traditionally risk-averse utilities are more likely to opt for low-risk PPA’s with smaller capacity installations until there is greater experience with the current generation of technologies,” concluded Bartholomy.

Bartholomy, along with a host of other speakers, is scheduled to speak at the 2nd CPV Summit US. He will be part of the `CPV’s present state in the solar world’ session. Other speakers in the panel  include:

*Edward Etzkorn, US Department of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
*Robert P Powers, President AEP Utilities, American Electric Power
*Tim Woodward, Nth Power
*Courtney McColgan, Associate, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
*Dwain Boettcher, VP, Business & Transmission Planning, Cannon Power Group
*Ricard Pardell, Partner, CPV Development Director, Wattpic
*Paula Mints, Principal Analyst, PV Services Program, Navigant Consulting

If you like to meet with these experts you can book online and receive $100 discount off the super early bird price by entering (PRWEB10) in the discount code box.

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Heidi Hafes
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New Solar Today
USA
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Recent breakthrough in the application of mind/body knowledge leads to a simple, yet instantly effective technique for eliminating nerves in a golfer’s game. Whether it’s 1st tee jitters or full blown performance anxiety.

Abbotsford, BC, October 22, 2009  — Mental Game Technologies, the company responsible for the Minding Your Game mental game coaching course, reveals its’ breakthrough mind/body coaching applications. The breakthrough results in a series of exercises that dissolve the negative effects that nerves have on a golfer’s performance.

The processes are simple yet powerful and expand into applications on eliminating performance anxiety.

“By using specific breathing techniques, which are influenced by many yoga and meditation teachings, our clients have experienced almost instant reduction in the experience of nerves while golfing.” says Wade Pearse, owner and coach for Mental Game Technologies.

There are 2 other aspects to the breakthrough that, coupled with the specific breathing techniques, also assist in dissolving performance anxiety. Many golfers, especially competitive and tournament players, experience debilitating anxiety before and during competitive matches and tournaments. Competitive stress has caused many great, and potentially great players to leave the game completely due to the inability to deal with this.

Minding Your Game is a system where every golfer, regardless of skill level, can benefit form applying cutting edge mental game techniques.

About Mental Game Technologies: Focused exclusively on the development and application of advanced and easy to use mental game processes. The outcome is to support golfers of all handicap levels in performing up to their capabilities consistently by teaching non-traditional methods for tapping personal potential.

Media Contact:
Wade Pearse
Minding Your Game
Abbotsford, BC,
35244 Knox Crescent,
Canada  V3G 2E1
778-552-3115
[email protected]

http://www.mindingyourgame.com