European Tribune - Comments - Solar vs. solar

If I got the categories right, CSP includes the more mature solar-thermal power technologies, in which a heat-absorbing medium drives a generator; as well as concentrated photovoltaic (CPV), in which the concentrated sunlight is absorbed by a high-quality multijunction solar cell.

Is this really how CPV is categorised by the industry? It certainly doesn't make any sense in terms of your discussion to group CPV with solar-thermal:

• no storage potential
  
• little economy of scale.

It is, however, possible that the emergence of CPV may be swamped, just like solar-thermal, by the cost reductions in classic PV.

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