Solar Energy Device That Generates Electricity And Heat

Solar companies are seeing the benefits of taking advantage of both energy sources (solar thermal and photovoltaic) in a single device. Up ahead in the career development of this new trend is Entech Solar, located in New Jersey, United States, with the ThermaVolt, hybrid solar equipment.

This unit has both solar photovoltaic cells to generate electricity and fluid tubes to generate hot water. The apparatus is efficient and economical because it has a mirror that focuses sunlight increasing it up to 20 times. With that amount of sunlight, the amount of solar cells is only 5% of those who need a traditional solar panel. The lens also serves to increase the heat pipes and heat water faster.

According to Entech, the solar device can generate up to 4 times more energy than a normal one.

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Published by val on Jul 1st, 2009 in Solar Gadgets, Solar technology

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One Response to “Solar Energy Device That Generates Electricity And Heat”

  1. The Photensity, Solar Thermal Energy, Photovoltaics And Natural Light All In One » Solar Energy, on July 2nd, 2009 at 3:23 pm Said:

    [...] The Photensity, Solar Thermal Energy, Photovoltaics And Natural Light All In One // Just yesterday we you showed a machine which took advantage of the thermal and photovoltaic solar energy in one device. [...]

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