Along with the new CPV modules, INER has also completed a high-efficiency, high-precision sunlight tracking module, they noted, adding that combining the CPV module with the tracking module can provide a much higher power generation efficiency.

The CPV and tracking module production technologies will be transferred to 14 contracted local manufacturers in a “CPV Strategic Alliance” as soon as possible, with a goal of boosting the production value of Taiwan’s CPV industry by billions of NT dollars by 2010, the sources said.

According to the institute, a three-year development roadmap has been arranged to facilitate the vision — namely, to install a laboratory for CPV solar cell modules by the end of 2007, to establish a certification system for one-megawatt CPV power generators in 2008, and to help the lab win accreditation by the Certification Body Testing Laboratory in 2009.

They pointed out that the institute is also working on a refinement project to raise the conversion efficiency of solar cells from 31 percent to 45 percent to further increase Taiwan’s edge in the CPV area.

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