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ECOSOLE project
The ECOSOLE project
HCPV (High Concentration PhotoVoltaic) generator suitable for high efficiency PV
power plants in desert areas
ECOSOLE (Elevated One of the project targets is also 1000W/sqm DNI irradiation, for
COncentration SOlar Energy), is to demonstrate how the industry each tracker. The trackers can be
actually one of the largest can achieve competitive LCOE easily deployed on any kind of
FP7 European Demonstration with HCPV technologies. terrain to quickly set up big solar
projects in solar photovoltaic. The demonstration project will farms with several MW power
The project is focused on the end with the installation of output. Each tracker realizes an
study, design, and realization of prototype systems in Italy and upside‐down feature for the easy
an innovative HCPV generator Israel. clean and maintenance
made of new high efficiency PV The project is leaded by BECAR operations
modules equipped with: srl, a BEGHELLI group company, The project is funded under EU
• SoG (Silicone on Glass) and includes relevant scientific FP7, Seventh Framework
fresnel lenses, with partners as primary research Programme (ENER/FP7/295985)
concentration factor >1100X institutions, like with the title “Elevated
• III‐V multi‐junction solar ENEA (Italian agency for Concentration photovoltaic solar
cells, with efficiency >43% renewable energies), energy generator and fully
• low cost self‐adaptive solar UPM (Universidad Politécnica de automated machinery for high
tracker with distributed Madrid) (UPM), throughput manufacturing and
inverters approach Ben‐Gurion University of the testing”
The project also demonstrates Negev (Israel),
TECNALIA (Spain),
new high throughput methods and several European industrial
for the industrial large scale companies partners.
productions, at very low
manufacturing costs; started in
August 2012 it will be completed
within 2015. Concentration unit
The new HCPV solar generators
will be a cost effective solution The new module is made of 72
for electric energy production multi‐junction solar cells. Its
especially suited for high DNI power output is greater than
200W, with a net conversion HCPV Becar‐Beghelli first
desert areas where the standard efficiency in excess of 34%. generation HCPV system
silicon panels suffer from hot More than 120 modules are
climate efficiency losses. The assembled on each 100 square
advantages of HCPV with respect meters wide tracker giving a peak
to standard PV solutions are: output power of almost 30kW @
• greater efficiency (+100%)
• better land use (less surface
needed and land multi‐use
thanks to no permanent
ECOSOLE new tracker
shadowing)
• scalability and fast Acknowledgments and contacts:
deployment of huge solar
power plants
Becar srl (Beghelli group)
• no need of cooling water, Viale Della Pace 1 ‐ Valsamoggia
(compared to CSP), 40053 Monteveglio (Bologna) ‐ Italy
Tel: +39‐051‐6702242
• constant power output all
over the day from sunrise to Mail to:
sunset. • maurizio.carpanelli@becar.it
• gianni.borelli@becar.it
ENER/FP7/295985/"ECOSOLE" August 2014
The ECOSOLE project
HCPV (High Concentration PhotoVoltaic) generator suitable for high efficiency PV
power plants in desert areas
ECOSOLE (Elevated One of the project targets is also 1000W/sqm DNI irradiation, for
COncentration SOlar Energy), is to demonstrate how the industry each tracker. The trackers can be
actually one of the largest can achieve competitive LCOE easily deployed on any kind of
FP7 European Demonstration with HCPV technologies. terrain to quickly set up big solar
projects in solar photovoltaic. The demonstration project will farms with several MW power
The project is focused on the end with the installation of output. Each tracker realizes an
study, design, and realization of prototype systems in Italy and upside‐down feature for the easy
an innovative HCPV generator Israel. clean and maintenance
made of new high efficiency PV The project is leaded by BECAR operations
modules equipped with: srl, a BEGHELLI group company, The project is funded under EU
• SoG (Silicone on Glass) and includes relevant scientific FP7, Seventh Framework
fresnel lenses, with partners as primary research Programme (ENER/FP7/295985)
concentration factor >1100X institutions, like with the title “Elevated
• III‐V multi‐junction solar ENEA (Italian agency for Concentration photovoltaic solar
cells, with efficiency >43% renewable energies), energy generator and fully
• low cost self‐adaptive solar UPM (Universidad Politécnica de automated machinery for high
tracker with distributed Madrid) (UPM), throughput manufacturing and
inverters approach Ben‐Gurion University of the testing”
The project also demonstrates Negev (Israel),
TECNALIA (Spain),
new high throughput methods and several European industrial
for the industrial large scale companies partners.
productions, at very low
manufacturing costs; started in
August 2012 it will be completed
within 2015. Concentration unit
The new HCPV solar generators
will be a cost effective solution The new module is made of 72
for electric energy production multi‐junction solar cells. Its
especially suited for high DNI power output is greater than
200W, with a net conversion HCPV Becar‐Beghelli first
desert areas where the standard efficiency in excess of 34%. generation HCPV system
silicon panels suffer from hot More than 120 modules are
climate efficiency losses. The assembled on each 100 square
advantages of HCPV with respect meters wide tracker giving a peak
to standard PV solutions are: output power of almost 30kW @
• greater efficiency (+100%)
• better land use (less surface
needed and land multi‐use
thanks to no permanent
ECOSOLE new tracker
shadowing)
• scalability and fast Acknowledgments and contacts:
deployment of huge solar
power plants
Becar srl (Beghelli group)
• no need of cooling water, Viale Della Pace 1 ‐ Valsamoggia
(compared to CSP), 40053 Monteveglio (Bologna) ‐ Italy
Tel: +39‐051‐6702242
• constant power output all
over the day from sunrise to Mail to:
sunset. • maurizio.carpanelli@becar.it
• gianni.borelli@becar.it
ENER/FP7/295985/"ECOSOLE" August 2014
