The Next Solar Frontier: Producing More Energy with Hybrid PV/Thermal Systems

clipped from www.worldofrenewables.com The development and commercialization of hybrid PV/Thermal systems is one of the most promising areas in the 'clean energy' industry today It is a combination system which produces both electricity and heat from one integrated system using the same surface area. Business and science alike are constantly engaged in a forward march towards the next ‘great thing’. We have witnessed brilliant technological advances over the past 20 years in computers and telecommunication which have redefined our society and our economies. For those of us who work in the renewable energy industry, we know the next great technological revolution has already begun in our field, and some of society’s greatest and most important advances will be realized soon. The excellence of past inventions and progress in the renewable energy field – refferring specifically to solar now – have created a foundation upon which two main events are based.