Table of Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- Incentives and subsidies
- Economic downturn
- Falling PV prices
- Oversupply in the PV market until 2012
- Technology
- Geographic market growth
INTRODUCTION AND METHODOLOGY
- Report scope and objective
- Methodology
- List of definitions
The photovoltaics industry
- PV end uses
- On-grid applications
- Off-grid applications
- PV installations and characteristics
- Small rooftop (1 - 10 kWp)
- Mid-sized rooftop (10 - 100kWp)
- Large rooftop (>100kWp)
- Ground-mounted systems (solar parks)
- BIPV
- Dynamics of PV materials and device supply chains
- Solar grade silicon supply and demand
- Supply and demand imbalance
Cutting -edge Technology and Drivers
- First generation: bulk silicon
- Construction technique
- Cost/efficiency equation
- Monocrystalline silicon cells
- Poly- or multi-crystalline silicon cells
- Thick-film silicon
- Silicon ribbon and sheet
- Second generation: inorganic thin-film
- Construction technique
- Cost/efficiency equation
- Silicon thin-film
- Amorphous silicon (a-Si)
- Thin-film crystalline silicon on glass
- Cadmium telluride
- CIGS
- CIS
- Future thin-film solar cells
- Concentrator cells
- Parabolic troughs
- Power towers
- Dish-engine systems
- Technology transition in PV
- Emerging PV technologies
- Developments in silicon module production
- Assessment of CIGS technology
- Growth of next-generation tandem and hybrid
- Concentrator PV systems and III - V cells
- Development of third-generation organic solar cells
Drivers and Challenges
- Key drivers
- Incentives and subsidies
- Europe
- US
- Solar America Initiative
- California Solar Initiative
- Overview of other states
- Asia
- Japan
- Regulatory landscape and incentives
- Korea
- Utility interest in solar
- Challenges for the PV Industry
- Economic downturn
- Reduced investment
- Manufacturing pressure and
- consolidation
- Pricing
- Grid-parity
- Oversupply
PV Market by Cell Type and End Use
- Introduction: historic photovoltaic market growth
- Market by cell type
- Crystalline silicon
- Silicon supply
- Developments in crystalline silicon solar cells
- Thin-film
- Amorphous silicon
- Cadmium telluride
- CIGS
- Thin-film vs. bulk silicon: pros and cons
- Cost/efficiency equation
- Applications
- Market confidence
- Panel sizes and weight
- Aesthetics
- Safety
- Raw materials
- Future
- Market by application
- Building-integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV)
PV market by region
- Regional overview
- Solar PV market growth
- Asia-Pacific
- Japan
- South Korea
- China
- Taiwan
- India
- Europe
- European production
- Germany
- Feed-in tariff
- Technology
- Spain
- Problems in the Spanish PV market Technology
- Italy
- Other European markets
- North America
- US
- Market growth
- Market competition
- Incentives and subsidies
- Grid-parity
- Utility company interest growing
- PPAs
- State by state markets
- Solar parks
Tables and figures
- Cumulative installed base of photovoltaics, 2008 - 14 (MW)
- Photovoltaic market by value, 2008 - 14 ($ billion)
- Photovoltaic installations by region, 2008 - 14 (MW)
- Overview of top 25 solar parks worldwide
- Number of large solar parks by country 2009)
- Solar PV production supply chain
- Silicon production of a selection of largegrade
- silicon manufacturers, 2008 - 14 (‘000 tonnes per year)
- Crystalline silicon production, 2008 - (14 MW per year)
- Transition table for commercial PV technology, 2009 - 14
- Technology transition for photovoltaic efficiencies
- European feed-in tariffs and other incentives for PV
- Financial incentives for renewable energy by US state
- Silicon technology transition
- Thin-film production capacity by type, 2008 and 2010 (MW)
- Photovoltaic installations by on-grid and off-grid applications, 2008 - 14
(MW)
- Asian solar cell manufacturers production capacity, 2008 - 14 (MW)
- Production capacity of leading European solar cell manufacturers, 2009 -
14 (MW)
- Changes in the EEG degression rates (%) Feed-in tariffs (Spain, Italy,
France, Greece), 2009
- US solar cell production capacity, 2008 - 14 (MW)
- Types of installations in the German market, 2009 (%)
- Segmentation by customer of key European PV markets, 2009
- Different types of photovoltaic systems
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