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Technology Focus: Photovoltaics

In: Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon

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Crystalline silicon is the workhorse of the photovoltaic power industry, making up about 95% of the modules sold in 2017. There are only two significant companies supplying anything else, as of December 2018: US-headquartered First Solar Inc making cadmium telluride modules, and Japanese Solar Frontier KK making copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) modules. Both are considered ‘thin film’ technologies, i.e. the process of making the modules involves depositing the semiconductor onto glass as a vapour and letting it crystallise in place in a layer a few microns thick. This is in contrast to the standard crystalline silicon type, where the semiconductor (silicon) is first crystallised into a block (ingot) and then cut it into slices at least 100 microns thick, a batch process with significant wastage (Table 18.1)…

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  • Jenny Chase, 2019. "Technology Focus: Photovoltaics," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon, chapter 18, pages 131-143, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9781786347404_0018
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    Keywords

    Climate Change; Energy Economics; Solar Power; Renewable Resources; Sustainable Technology; Finance;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q01 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - General - - - Sustainable Development
    • Q43 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Energy and the Macroeconomy
    • Q40 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - General
    • G20 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - General
    • G30 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - General

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