Durability & Reliability Challenges For Photovoltaics

摘要

The increase in activity in the clean energy sector leads one to believe that this time around the excitement may actually amount to something. Despite declining production costs and increasing cell conversion efficiencies, cost remains a significant issue for so-called clean energy technologies. Economic pressure to attain parity with current, conventional electricity generation increases as government incentives for renewables are under threat, will decrease over time and eventually will be withdrawn. Soon each renewable technology will be required to stand on its own economic merit.