Patent ID: 9312805
Filing Date: 2016-04-12
CPC Classification: G01J,H01L,H02S,Y02E

Claim Text:
1. A solar photovoltaic electric power generating system comprising: a solar concentrating element arranged to receive and concentrate an incident solar radiation beam to generate a concentrated solar radiation beam; a photovoltaic element arranged to receive at least a portion of the concentrated solar radiation beam; a radiation attenuating element comprising an array of independently controllable segments or pixels arranged to selectively attenuate the incident solar radiation beam or the concentrated solar radiation beam to affect an amount of radiation in the at least a portion of the concentrated solar radiation beam transmitted to at least one portion of the photovoltaic element; at least one sensor arranged to generate at least one output signal; and a controller adapted to control the array of independently controllable segments or pixels responsive to the at least one output signal; wherein the system comprises one of the following features (i) or (ii):