By: Fareed Sfard

Fareed Sfard — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:20:20 +0000

Ahura Energy is the only company in the world that has grid parity levelized cost of energy (LCOE) of 5 cents/kWhr today with working units, we have a path to get to 40% less than grid parity in less than 3 years which is the lowest cost of producing energy by any technology including nuclear, coal and gas. Our fault tolerant architecture enables a full functional redundancy due to the functional overlap created by our architecture among refracting/reflecting elements. The system is agnostic to CPV, CST and even roof tops due to absence of pedestals, gear boxes and heavy expensive support infrastructure. For roof top applications, our performance is better than 250% more power per unit area when compared with a-Si and other traditional panels. Motors and gear boxes used on conventional CST and CPV systems are sources of very high costs preventive and corrective maintenance and failures. In addition, the requirements to ensure wind robustness and wind load tolerance puts a huge burden on the installation of these systems from logistics and costs perspective. On the contrary, our system does not require pedestals and cement for installation. Our novel approach includes independent control and steering of each and everyone of the reflecting/refracting elements to ensure that maximum amount of sun energy is captured and refracted/reflected to the most optimized target(s) as a function of the time of the day through our proprietary architecture. In a recent study that was performed, It was found that a particular power company’s net income of $1.2B will be doubled on a 300 MW installation using Ahura Energy’s proprietary architecture and system.

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By: Fareed Sfard