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Technology Status - NET Nowak Energie & Technologie AG

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sells customised module manufacturing lines. Two Swiss companies, Meyer<br />

& Burger and HCT Shaping systems, have a large share of the market for wire<br />

saws used for cell production.<br />

The US industry is export-oriented: more than 80% of the approximately<br />

150,000 charge controllers manufactured by US suppliers are sold abroad.<br />

The Japanese PV industry primarily supplies its domestic market. The<br />

European PV industry currently imports about as many modules as it exports.<br />

● Market<br />

The annual production of PV modules has been growing at an average rate<br />

of more than 30% in recent years. PV module production capacity is now<br />

over 500 MW per year. The latest data on global cell/module production by<br />

cell technology in MW are given in Figure 20.<br />

Figure 20<br />

World Production by Cell <strong>Technology</strong> in 2002<br />

Cadmium telluride<br />

0.4%<br />

In 1990, PV was used mainly in stand-alone systems, for rural electrification<br />

and small-scale applications. Since then, the number of grid-connected<br />

systems has greatly increased. Europe and Japan have the largest number of<br />

distributed grid-connected PV systems, mostly building-integrated (BiPV).<br />

3<br />

Ribbon silicon<br />

3.3%<br />

Amorphous<br />

silicon<br />

5.5%<br />

Amorphous<br />

silicon on single<br />

crystal silicon<br />

slice<br />

5.9%<br />

Multicrystal<br />

54.4%<br />

Source: PVNEWS, March 2003.<br />

SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER<br />

Microcrystal<br />

silicon/single<br />

silicon<br />

0.7%<br />

Silicon on lowcost-substrate<br />

0.3%<br />

Crystal silicon<br />

concentrators<br />

0.1%<br />

61<br />

Single crystal flat<br />

plate<br />

29.4%

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