Nanorgysol

Nanorgysol project aims to explore a great number of materials and concepts in order to evaluate their potential and to be able to make at the end of this project the strategic choices in term of paths to develop. This project is financed by the National Agency of Research (ANR) within the framework of the “Solar Photovoltaic" Program.

Thus, the results awaited at the end of this project are to obtain with one of the developed concepts: 
      -   a solar efficiency of 5% on 1cm² glass substrate,
      -   the demonstration of a solar efficiency on a surface of 100 cm². 
The lifetime of the most promising cells will be measured. 

These considerations were carried out within the framework of the network NANORGASOL, supported by CNRS, set up in April 2005 and will be relayed by the National Institute for Solar Energy (INES) based in Chambéry, which counts CEA and CNRS as partners.

More information on : www.nanorgysol.cea.fr

Source : CEA 

Solaire Direct

SOLAIRE DIRECT is the first solar electric utility fully dedicated to photovoltaic in France. The company provides solutions and all inclusive services to a range of electrical markets from 4-12 MW large scale PV plants to 2-3 kW commercial and residential integrated solar roofs. The company markets a turn-key solution which involves project development, engineering and operations services. SOLAIRE DIRECT has partnered with the leading solar component and system manufacturers as it builds a portfolio of hundreds of MW of power generation and thousands of customers. They are headquartered in Paris ( France).

Source : Techfund

More information on : http://www.solairedirect.fr/

Kilowattsol : Solar Resource Expert

Calculate the potential photovoltaix from any point on the planet, particularly of course from a roof is the performance of the system developed by Kilowattsol, a start up crated by Xavier Daval in Lyon - France.The system integrates in a box apparatus to acquire data which are then exploited when loading via the Internet using a system of calculation. The box, placed on a roof, calculates the greatest slope, records the GPS, took a photo to 360 degrees in the horizontal direction, and 180 degrees in the vertical direction. It records masks the effect of which will then be calculated by simulating the course of the sun. " In summary, the system records that the roof "sees (and receives) and not what the artisan, the client, the architect who remain on the ground calculate. 

The data are used to distance after loading onto a site. A simulation software can calculate, with a margin of error of 5%, the amount of solar energy received by a roof or roof several elements in the case of complex architecture.

More information on : www.Kilowattsol.com

Source : Translation from Enviscope