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On-grid performance of REhnu's 8-mirror CPV-T tracker

Stalcup et al., 2017

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12953261922038302888
Author
Stalcup T
Angel R
Geary A
Sodari F
Rademacher M
Whiteside A
Will J
Didato N
Strittmatter P
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AIP Conference Proceedings

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REhnu has built and tested two 6 kW CPV-T trackers using dish-receiver architecture. In these trackers, only the light collection elements are large, namely mirrors on dual axis trackers. The inherently small parts, the multijunction cells, are packaged in a small …
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