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Technology Status - NET Nowak Energie & Technologie AG

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Price per Wp USD 1999<br />

10<br />

5<br />

0<br />

16<br />

But, if correctly applied and interpreted, the experience curve helps to identify<br />

crucial elements behind and beyond the simple relationships it describes.<br />

Furthermore, based on assumptions about market growth, cost reduction<br />

can be estimated in specific time-frames. In general, three scales of potential<br />

global cost reduction can be identified for renewable electricity technologies.<br />

Figure 2<br />

Illustrations of <strong>Technology</strong> Development<br />

Wind power<br />

1985:<br />

20 kW<br />

Photovoltaics<br />

100 - 200<br />

new<br />

concepts<br />

a-Si<br />

nanocrystalline<br />

Dye-cell<br />

1990:<br />

170 kW<br />

200 - 500<br />

thin film<br />

CTS<br />

CIS<br />

1995:<br />

473 kW<br />

multi-Si<br />

EFG<br />

mc<br />

5<br />

10<br />

15<br />

50 100 150<br />

1999:<br />

919 kW<br />

mono-Si<br />

n + pp +<br />

2002:<br />

1395 kW<br />

500 - 700 700 - 1500<br />

Sources: <strong>NET</strong> Ltd. Switzerland, based on raw data from Durstewitz (1999),<br />

Systèmes Solaires/EurObserv’ER (2003); and Hoffmann / RWE Schott Solar GmbH.<br />

20<br />

Price per<br />

area<br />

<strong>Technology</strong><br />

Efficiency<br />

per area [W/m 2]<br />

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY X

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