Trajectories of concentrating photovoltaics (CPV) in market space based on comparisons with offshore wind power

Abstract

Concentrating photovoltaics (CPV) are for solar photovoltaics what offshore wind power is for wind power; this is the hypothesis of this work. In analogy to offshore wind cumulative global CPV installations of approximately 3-7 GW are predicted for the year 2020. Scenarios are based on paths for CPV following offshore wind in shape, but with a delay of ten years which is approximately the time lag the first larger offshore wind farms were built earlier than the first large CPV plants of 2011. © 2012 American Institute of Physics.