New PV Standards Initiatives Lower Costs for All
Advanced automation of the PVmanufacturing process will make a major contribution to reduced costsfor solar cells and panels through increased throughput, improvedproduct quality, better yields, and...
View ArticleGlobal PV Competition Creates Increased International Trade Disputes
Critical to the healthy growth of the global solar PV market is a global trade system without restrictive barriers between countries. Buyers of solar products, equipment and materials should be able to...
View ArticleThe 2012 Solar Industry Outlook
“2012” is a 2009 American disaster filmstarring John Cusack that depicts a series of catastrophic naturaldisasters stemming from a massive solar flare. Some analysts arebeginning to talk about a real...
View ArticlePV Research and Development Driven by Supply Chain
A review of R&D spending by cell andmodule makers finds that it remains very low, particularly in comparison to other high-techindustries. In c-Si, technology development is relatively...
View Article2010 ITRPV: Cost Reduction Targets Identified
Last week at the PV Fab Managers Forum in Berlin, the Crystalline Silicon PV Technology and Manufacturing Group (CTM), in cooperation with SEMI PV Group released the 2010 International Technology...
View ArticleSuntech and Q-Cells Champion Global Collaboration
In December, SEMI announced that Zhengrong Shi, Ph.D., founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Suntech Power, and Gerhard Rauter, chief operating officer and member of the Executive Board of...
View ArticleEffective Environmental Policies Require Industry and Government Cooperation
The PV industry was founded on a richlegacy of environmental insights and values. Many of the industry’searly visionaries saw the benefits of clean, renewable energy and hadthe foresight to question...
View ArticleTechnology Roadmaps and Industry Standards: A Path Towards Grid Parity
Based upon the experiences of otherindustries, technology developments in cell efficiency and increases inmanufacturing economies of scale will not be enough to reach grid parity goals as fast as the...
View ArticlePV Group Members Descend on Washington to Urge Expanded Solar Support
Last week, several members joined me and other SEMI PV Group staff for an education mission to Capital Hill in support of US renewable energy legislation as part of our annual Washington Forum. A...
View ArticleCalifornia Solar Ready To Take Off
In order to build a sustainable marketfor solar energy in California, the right state polices must be in place to correctly incentivize wide scale implementation of solar technology. Two of the biggest...
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