New JV introduces solar concentrators to Indian roof-tops

Now hotels and industry in India can start using solar concentrators on their roof-tops for production of hot water, electricity, steam and solar cooling.

Minister of Environment, Mrs Maud Olofsson with solar collector

Mr. Jasbir Singh, Mrs. Maud Olofsson (Swedish Minister of Energy) and Mr. Joakim Bystrom discussing features of the solar concentrator.

Fotograf: Par Thomaeus, Absolicon.

Due to a new Joint Venture recently formed between the prize awarded Swedish company Absolicon Solar Concentrator and the Indian solar energy company Bergen Group, roof-top solar concentrators are now introduced in India. The JV is joining unique technological knowledge with market and manufacturing capacity for the Indian market.
The interest was massive as the new co-operation and the product Absolicon X10 was presented at the DIREC exhibition in New Delhi. One of the congratulators in New Delhi was the Swedish Minister of Enterprise and Energy, Mrs. Maud Olofsson.

- "Sweden is a small country but we have achieved a great deal in the area of energy. The climate challenge and today's globalised world require greater cooperation and exchange of experience, not least in the area of energy," said Mrs. Olofsson

In India, the industry is using natural gas and electricity from coal fired power plants is used to produce heat and steam. But the new solar collectors on company roof-tops can directly produce 100°C – 200°C of heat or steam from the sun to power the industry processes or to run a solar cooling system.
The Absolicon solar concentrators can also be used to simultaneous produce electricity and hot water with patented solar cell technology. Each solar cell produces 10 times more electricity than a normal solar cell. This is of interest for large hotels or hospitals that use a lot of hot tap water and electricity.

- “This is a new era for solar energy in India”, Mr. Jasbir Singh explains. “With solar concentrators Indian industry can replace electricity and natural gas with solar energy.”

Absolicon is in rapid expansion also in South America and Europe, financed partly by the Swedish Energy Authority and with the help of the consultant bureau Arquata. The product X10 is the result of 30 years of Swedish research on solar concentrators and has been awarded by His Majesty the King Carl Gustav and named “Climate Solver” by the World Wildlife Fund.
The CEO of Absolicon, Mr. Joakim Bystrom, was invited speaker at the DIREC and complemented the Indian commitment to use solar energy to power the development of the country.

- “We are impressed by the work of Bergen Group in India and we are together already planning for the first manufacturing plant here”, Mr. Bystrom declared. “India has an enormous need of this technology and we will not rest until our solar concentrators are installed in every city and every village in India.”

The first installations in India will be producing process heat in an industry and for hot water and electricity production in a school.

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