Jun 28 2010
Kalahari GreenTech has unveiled its solar collector details. Solar and wind are some of the leading resources of renewable energy. The company designs, manufactures and supplies solar collectors, wind turbines as well as other sustainable energy technologies.
Wind power generation, throughout the world, has seen tremendous growth over the last decade. In 2008 alone, more than 200 billion kWh of wind power was generated, equivalent to the yearly electrical usage of more than 18 million homes in the U.S. Over the years, nations such as India, China and the U.S. as well as the Western European region have witnessed considerable increase in the production of wind energy.
Solar energy deployment has increased at a rapid rate in the U.S. in 2008. A report by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) indicates that the U.S. solar power capacity had reached around 8,775 MW in 2008.
The solar collector of Kalahari GreenTech is a cost-effective unit that addresses the issues related with system and collector efficiency. For improving the system performance, the collector simultaneously operates three functions and hence has been named as a “Tri-Brid” system. The solar collector cannot serve as an economically viable system without each of the three functions operating from one integrated system. Nevertheless, since all of the three functions operate together, the combination thermal-voltaic solar collector system of Kalahari GreenTech can be termed as a cost effective one.