Efficiency enhancement and cost reduction keys to success of solar technology

摘要

Long-term projections today within the solar industry deal typically with forecasted market size (or cumulative installations), with top-level technology splits (c-Si, thin film, etc.) representative of manufacturing output, with levelized cost of energies for the different approaches, and of course with supply-demand dynamics.rnRaw material requirements, solar cell efficiencies, and capex/opex costs are needed to reach end goals.rnLooking at the range of technology types used within cell manufacturing, the standard segmentation is based on c-Si, thin-film, and a generalized group including almost anything "Gen 3" (concentrator cells, or CPV, kick in further downstream than cell manufacturing).