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Solar CONCENTRATOR PHOTOVOLTAIC TECHNOLOGIES Review and Market Prospects After more than three decades of exploring a dizzying variety of and in other southwestern U.S. locations ways to concentrate sunlight onto solar cells with mirrors or [Amo 200 ]. Recently, Amonix announced a joint venture with Spains Guascor, who lenses, Concentrator photovoltaics (CPV) technologies are finally will build a 10 MW per year assembly plant entering the market - a market for 100 kW systems and larger. in Spain by the end of 2005. Amonix also Robert McConnell, Sarah Kurtz, and Martha Symko-Davies from plans to install 3 MW of CPV in the south- the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) report on western United States, while Guascor plans to install 10 MW of CPV systems in Spain recent market prospects and new record CPV cell efficiencies that in 2006. This market is made possible by portend the emergence of CPV systems in the next 2-5 years at Spains new feed-in tariffs and long-term installed system costs of $3 per watt. contracts that attract investors wanting to maximize the kilowatt-hours gener