Italian Beghelli company launches concentrated photovoltaic home

Get a solar panel, reduce to three times the size for the same "power" and cuts the price. Is the future of solar energy, to supply all the energy needs of our planet "ventures the Nobel Prize for Physics Zhores Alferov. Its technology base. But to translate it into practice is the Italianissimo Beghelli, with a prototype already built and the promise of marketing new electronic photovoltaic panels, high-end of the year, waging a head to head with the world's most advanced industries in the sector. The official launch - the chairman anticipates Gianpietro Beghelli - done with the conversion of solar energy to a hospital in Cuba and an initiative to support Africa in that give energy to a mission of the Salesians.

Engineering and engineering from Nobel Italian. Everything comes from ideas from the oven Alferov at the end of the'50s, experimented with the Russian satellite Sputnik.  And now 'the great advances in microelectronics have allowed the improvement of production parameters of solar cells that are already applied aerospace engineering, can have a real job in the land "Alferof notes. That track the new frontier, "the solar cells of a new type of overcoming the threshold of 38% efficiency, with the aim of achieving 55% in the near future."

Absolute power and convenience, the builders promise, even if for now not dare price comparisons with the panels already existing appointment in the autumn. In each case "with existing incentives account energy a plant can be largely paid off in less than ten years with at least twenty years of operational life."

For now concentrate on what they show on the prototype: the triple-junction cells based on gallium, germanium and indium, each occupying a square of 3 mm to 110 mm as a silicon crystal. Each photovoltaic module such promises a power of 150 watts enclosed in less than one square meter with a weight under 30 kilos.