Xtreme Energetics (XE) is developing a new approach to large scale concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) solar power for use in desert central utilities and commercial rooftops and facades. The technology, called “XE-CPV”, offers the highest energy return per unit area of any renewable energy technology, and has the potential to be scaled up to meet a significant fraction of our national and global power needs. XE-CPV panels combine innovative patented, or patent-pending, advances in solar concentrators, trackers, and photovoltaic cells and will also be equipped, eventually, with on-panel storage to make the system a viable source of baseload power. Their predominant transparency also allows architects to design in color and low-power lighting effects to facade-mounted panels.

Xtreme Energetics' Advantages

• Uses built-in electronic trackers (eTrackers) to maximize the power per unit of land utilized.
• Very high area-efficiency and smart resource utilizationmakes massive scale-up feasible.
• eTrackers eliminate wind loading, increase reliability, and allow versatile deployments.
• Uses the highest efficiency solar cells available delivering more power per unit area.
• Distributed micro-concentrator design lowers heat load and increases efficiency.
• On-panel storage will provide baseload power and displace fossil fuel use.
• Uses thin, low-loss, solar concentrators to minimize lens cost and losses.
• Transparent concentrator allows architectural coloration to be added.
• Robotically cleanable solar panels reduce maintenance costs.
• In Summary: More Energy. Less Area. Lower Cost.