Silicon price pressures on PV plants to ease in 2008

摘要

A turnaround in the supply of polysilicon, a keyncomponent of photovoltaic solar panels, is expected inn2008, reducing industry production costs. Severenshortages of polysilicon have in recent years restrainednattempts by PV panel manufacturers to continuenreducing costs for a technology that demands highnupfront payments on the part of the consumer.