Low-Cost, High-Quality Cells Accelerate Solar Market

摘要

The competition in developing technologies, which lead to reduced cost but higher quality solar cells, gets more vibrant. In particular, Chinese panel makers, who continue to enjoy the market momentum, are coming up with a new development strategy that gives importance to quality. This has sent other players in the market to persevere and pursue higher quality but lower cost products.rnThe prices of silicon have subsided, which used to be sky high at one time, and the difference in prices between crystalline silicon solar cells and thin-film silicon solar cells has become almost nil. Because they possess high conversion efficiency, crystalline silicon solar cells emerge anew as the main silicon solar cells in the market. Technologies that provide even higher conversion efficiency, including those that are of rear-contact kind, have also become viable for commercial use, and the market share of these products has been increasing.