High efficiency roof-top solar: progress and pilot installation in the HIPERION project

Resumen

The Swiss start-up Insolight together with the Hiperion consortium of partners are developing a state of the art static micro-CPV module within the Hiperion project. The Insolight/Hiperion panel applies three different technologies, previously seen only in laboratory prototypes, to a full-size solar device: microscale concentrator photovoltaics, planar micro-tracking, and diffuse capture. The consortium, which includes research centers, industrial leaders, solar installers, and PV manufacturers, will finish a pilot-scale manufacturing facility as well as multiple pilot installations by the end of 2023. The Solar Energy Institute at Madrid Technical University (IES-UPM), along with the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy (ISE) and the PV-center at the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM) are charged with characterizing new module designs developed within the program, as well as creating new measurement methods, standards, and equipment adapted for the specifics of this new technology. Here we present the results of indoor and outdoor measurement of modules of the first batch of “Gen2” modules, the final design to be produced on the Hiperion pilot line, as well as a full year’s worth of field data at two pilot installations installed at IES-UPM and Fraunhofer ISE.