OPEL Solar’s High Concentration Solar Photovoltaic Module Gets U.S. Patent

OPEL Solar, a CT headquartered company and a developer and provider of high concentration photovoltaic (HCPV) solar panels, declared that it has received the patent for its concentrating solar photovoltaic module from the Patent office of the United States. The concentrating solar PV modules are installed by utility level power plants and other commercial and industrial applications for generating electricity.

The new HCPV Module formulated by Francisco A. Middleton and Edward J. Linke symbolizes the latest HCPV technology of OPEL Solar. The HCPV module comprises a housing structure that endures a range of PV cells and matching light guides. The concentrating lenses incorporated in the module focuses the received solar energy into the housing structure in the direction of the light guides, which in turn projects the solar emission over the PV cells for producing energy. The module generates  solar energy efficiently.

Lee M. Pierhal, OPEL Solar’s President and CEO, expressed his happiness about the patent award that approved the effort of the company in solar power generation. He said that the new HCPV module is a cost-effective system which is developed to offer quality performance in places with medium and high level of solar radiation and can be used in a range of grid linked solar systems. He added that the higher power generating capability of the HCPV system has created interest to a number of potential partners all over the world.