About Us
A Toronto-based, solar-energy start-up, Morgan Solar was founded in 2007 to develop next generation solar power technologies that will make solar energy significantly less expensive. Our first product to market is the Sun Simba, a patented Concentrated Photovoltaic (CPV) system currently optimized for ground-mounted applications. Based on the principle of Total Internal Reflection (TIR), the Sun Simba achieves one of the solar industry’s highest sunlight-to-electricity conversions, in the most compact, low cost form to date.
Morgan Solar is now focused on deploying Sun Simbas at test and demonstration sites in Ontario and California.
In addition to the Sun Simba, Morgan Solar has five patented or patent-pending solar PV and illumination products in the pipeline, all based on our approach of combining highly innovative non-imaging optics with well-established manufacturing processes.
Revolutionary Optics:
Entirely new ways of concentrating solar energy
At its core, Morgan Solar is an optical technology company. All of our solar modules are based on a simple set of concepts about how sunlight behaves and how it can be captured and transported. Founded by John Paul Morgan, a physicist with a background in optics, condensed matter, and medical imaging, Morgan Solar is developing a portfolio of groundbreaking photovoltaic products based on our non-imaging optical innovations. The first to market, the Sun Simba, is made possible by the Light-guide Solar Optic (LSO), our novel concentrator. As the first planar concentrating optic, the LSO elegantly solves the problems of cost, materials, and complexity associated with existing Concentrated Photovoltaic (CPV) solar modules based on lenses, mirrors, or prisms. By simplifying the optical concentration process, Morgan Solar has created a fundamental disruption in solar energy.
Firmly Established Manufacturing Processes:
We’ve reinvented CPV, not manufacturing
To achieve our goal of making solar energy affordable, we design our products to be manufactured using off-the-shelf processes and take into account their full costs over their entire life cycle. We start by choosing the raw materials – based on the robustness of their supply chains, their long term cost sensitivity, and their end-of-life recycling values. We then develop our products to be fabricated using high tolerance, well established manufacturing processes, such as those that would be available in a repurposed automotive factory. All of these elements, combined with rigorous standards, lead to the highest possible reliability, durability, and performance of our solar modules.