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Indeed retail is a different market I don't directly talk about here. And price drop is equivalent of price rise in other technologies, eg if we start counting all real costs of oil/gas/coil :).

But one interesting thing is that the Victoria project is using a large number - 19250 - of relatively small CS 500 Heliostat dishes to produce the advertized 154 MW peak, so that's 8 kW peak per dish, so about 1.6 kW assuming 20% load (average price per dish of the plant is 18130 USD).

These numbers for one dish are not far from home consumption so this has great potential as a very distributed system.

by Laurent GUERBY on Wed Aug 15th, 2007 at 11:07:10 AM EST
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Ooops I misunderstood the documentation (and forgot to look at the drawings :), 19250 is the number of mirrors ("heliostats") on ground. It looks like there will be 246 small towers with each 256 PV cells (total 62976) and agregating around 78 mirrors light.


 Plant components:
    Heliostats - 19,250
    Receivers - 246
    PV Modules - 62,976
by Laurent GUERBY on Wed Aug 15th, 2007 at 01:18:30 PM EST
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