The paper describes an innovative Test Facility for the outdoor photovoltaic concentrator module (CPV) characterization which allows simultaneous module I-V curve measurements while ensuring a very precise alignment of each CPV module. Furthermore the CPV module efficiency as a function of the angular misalignment can be accurately assessed along the two tracking axes.

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