NOVELTY - A glass concentrator for manufacturing solar energy conversion module, comprises a webbing having a first thickness (105) between front (101) and back (103) region of webbing; a load sustenance characteristic; several elongated concentrating elements (200); and a geometric concentration characteristic. The concentrating elements are integrally formed with the back region one-next-to-another in parallel along the first dimension.    USE - For manufacturing solar energy conversion module (claimed).    ADVANTAGE - The selection of the thickness of webbing provides an important load sustenance characteristic and impact hail resistance characteristic to the concentrator of the solar module. The load sustenance and impact resistance characteristics associated with the first thickness of the ribbon glass comprises at least one criteria in accordance with IEC and UL standards. The glass concentrator results in a satisfaction of all the Industrial Qualification Standards such as load of 2400 Pa uniformly applied to the surface of the module for 1 hour in two cycles, and a nail impact represented by an ice ball of 25 mm diameter directed at a speed of at least 23 meter per second to 11 (random) locations on a entire surface region of greater than or equal to 1 meterasterisk\ 1.6 meter.    DETAILED DESCRIPTION - A glass concentrator for manufacture of solar energy conversion module, comprises a webbing having a first thickness (105) between front (101) and back (103) region of the webbing; a load sustenance characteristic from the first thickness of the webbing; a hail impact resistance characteristic of the webbing; several elongated concentrating elements (200); and a geometric concentration characteristic. The webbing has a shape containing first dimension (107), a second dimension (109), a planar region defined by the first dimension and the second dimension. The concentrating elements are integrally formed with the back region one-next-to-another in parallel along the first dimension. Each of the elongated concentrating elements has a length substantially equal to the second dimension, an aperture region, an exit region, a first side region provided between a first edge portion of the aperture region and a first edge portion of the exit region, a second side region provided between a second edge portion of the aperture region and a second edge portion of the exit region, and a second thickness provided between the aperture region and the exit region. The geometric concentration characteristic has a scale ratio of the aperture region to the exit region for each of the concentrating elements. The webbing and concentrating elements are made of a single piece of transparent solid with a refractive index of greater than or equal to 1.4. The concentrator further comprises an infrared blocking coating overlying the front region; an anti-reflective coating overlying the infrared blocking coating; a reflectivity enhancement coating overlying the first side region and the second side region. INDEPENDENT CLAIMS are included for the following:    (1) making the glass concentrator for manufacture of solar energy conversion module, involving forming a ribbon glass; rolling the ribbon glass with a shaped molding roller at a first temperature within a first time period to cause formation of concentrating elements having a second thickness in the top surface, where the second thickness is less than the first thickness, and the concentrating elements includes a geometric optical concentration structure having an aperture region and an exit region respectively connected by two reflective side surfaces; processing the rolled ribbon glass to build a load sustenance and impact resistance characteristics associated with the first thickness; and    (2) a method of assembling a solar concentrator module, involving preparing a concentrator unit including a webbing; providing an optical coupling material overlaying each exit region; and providing photovoltaic strips associated with electric leads.    DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING(S) - The figure shows a simplified perspective view of the glass concentrator for a solar concentrator module.    Front region of webbing (101)    Back region of webbing (103)    First thickness of webbing (105)    First dimension of webbing (107)    Second dimension of webbing (109)    Elongated concentrating elements. (200)