Skyline Solar Inc. has developed a novel silicon-based PV system to simultaneously reduce energy cost and improve
scalability of solar energy. The system achieves high gain through a combination of high capacity factor and optical
concentration. The design approach drives innovation not only into the details of the system hardware, but also into
manufacturing and deployment-related costs and bottlenecks. The result of this philosophy is a modular PV system
whose manufacturing strategy relies only on currently existing silicon solar cell, module, reflector and aluminum parts
supply chains, as well as turnkey PV module production lines and metal fabrication industries that already exist at
enormous scale. Furthermore, with a high gain system design, the generating capacity of all components is multiplied,
leading to a rapidly scalable system. The product design and commercialization strategy cooperate synergistically to
promise dramatically lower LCOE with substantially lower risk relative to materials-intensive innovations. In this paper,
we will present the key design aspects of Skyline's system, including aspects of the optical, mechanical and thermal
components, revealing the ease of scalability, low cost and high performance. Additionally, we will present performance
and reliability results on modules and the system, using ASTM and UL/IEC methodologies.
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