Chevron built the 1-megawatt demonstration plant on 20 acres of the mining company’s molybdenum operation near the village of Questa.
“We’ve been in the energy business a long time and we appreciate that it takes a long time to bring new technology to market, but if we don’t start now, we’ll never get there, and this is a great way of doing it,” Des King, president of Chevron Technology Ventures, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from the site.
“The tremendous improvement that we have seen in the solar conversion efficiencies for the solar cells used in the systems is quite simply remarkable,” Raffaelle said. “They are now 25 percent more efficient than they were just a decade ago.”
