Patent ID: 7872192

Claim:
A planar concentrator solar power module apparatus comprising a planar base, base formed by a planar metal back sheet and an electrical insulating film on the metal back sheet, plural parallel linearly spaced aligned arrays of linear photovoltaic cell circuits on the base, the cell circuits further comprising plastic sheets and silicon cells sandwiched between the plastic sheets, the arrays being spaced apart on the base more than a width of an array, a metal frame surrounding the module and extending upward away from the planar base, a glass front plate mounted on the metal frame and spaced from the silicon cells, and an array of linear planar Fresnel lenses on the glass front plate spaced above the base for directing focused solar radiation on the aligned arrays of linear photovoltaic cell circuits, and wherein the metal back sheet spreads and conducts heat laterally away from the silicon cells sandwiched between the plastic sheets on the base.