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OCTOBER 2010 issue n°100 THE DISRUPTIVE SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGIES MAGAZINE PHOTOVOLTAIC Satcon expands partnership with GCL Solar to include strategic manufacturing agreement Additional 500 megawatts in expected annual production capacity beginning in March 2011 increases worldwide manufacturing capacity to over 2 gigawatts. Satcon Technology Corporation, a provider of utility scale power solutions for the renewable energy market, announced a strategic manufacturing agreement with GCL Solar Systems Limited, one of China's largest utility solar power plant developers, to enhance production of their industry leading 500 kilowatt (kW) PowerGate Plus line of solar PV inverters for the Asia Pacific market. Under the terms of the agreement, GCL Solar is commissioning a manufacturing facility in Nanjing, China, which is expected to be capable of producing over 500 megawatts (MW) of production of the 500kW PowerGate Plus inverters in 2011. Satcon is expected to provide GCL Solar with the core manufacturing processes and technologies for the PowerGate Plus solutions for final assembly at the GCL Solar plant. GCL Solar has agreed to purchase from Satcon the capacity to produce a minimum of 300MW per year out of the GCL Nanjing operation. The PowerGate Plus 500kW inverters manufactured at the Nanjing facility under this Agreement are expected to be sold by GCL Solar into the Chinese solar PV market, and used on GCL Solar funded utility solar developments around the world. Production out of the Nanjing manufacturing facility is expected to begin in March of 2011, and when combined with the expanded Burlington, Ontario operations is expected to increase worldwide manufacturing capacity to over 2 annual gigawatts. www.satcon.com PowerGate 500 kW PV Inverter Dow Corning unveils plans for new solar energy exploration & development center Announcement event followed by roundtable discussion on innovation as driver of sustainable growth. Dow Corning today unveiled plans for its $13 million investment in a Solar Energy Exploration & Development Center (SEED) at its European headquarters in Seneffe, Belgium. This investment expands the company’s ability to innovate with a broad range of European customers using its silicon-based materials while also enhancing the company’s European-based solar energy research and development capabilities. Following a ceremony, which included the unveiling of the investment plans, political representatives and business leaders shared their views on the role of innovation as a key driver for economic growth in the 21st Century in Belgium and Europe. The dialogue created an opportunity for participants to present their opinion on ‘Plan Marshall 2.Vert’ (Marshall Plan 2.Green) launched by the Walloon government in September 2009 to boost Wallonia’s economic growth, including the sixth competitiveness pole announced by Jean-Claude Marcourt, Vice-President and Minister of Economy of the Walloon region, earlier this year as well as the upcoming innovation strategy and the revision of the EU’s industrial policy. The investment in SEED includes two new buildings that will complement the company’s existing Business & Technology Center in Seneffe, increasing capabilities and capacity for research and development in Europe. One facility, a Synthesis Technology Center for the European area, will house laboratories and chemists focused on increasing Dow Corning’s innovation portfolio of silicon-based materials and boosting research in sustainable technologies. A second facility, a European Solar Solutions Application Center, will seek to advance the company’s technology for use in photovoltaic cells. Construction is expected to begin later in 2010. The Walloon region has granted Dow Corning € 7.5 million of subsidies to help the company with its investments. www.dowcorning.com Copyrights © Yole Développement SA. All rights reserved - Recycled paper Tigo Energy ® teams with SCHOTT Solar to bring electronic intelligence to photovoltaic projects The companies are working together to bring electronic intelligence to the solar module and increase power output. As part of the partnership, SCHOTT Solar has extensively tested and established system compatibility, including the frame mounting procedure, with the Tigo Energy Maximizer Solution and SCHOTT’s industry-leading solar photovoltaic (PV) modules. Additionally, Tigo Energy will be actively supporting the SCHOTT Solar initiative to include intelligent electronics in next-generation module design. The Tigo Energy Maximizer Solution creates smart modules that provide up to a 20 percent increase in energy production, active management capabilities and enhanced safety for utility, commercial and residential solar arrays. The implementation of the Tigo Energy PV-Safe feature, which enables the deactivation of all high voltage DC on the rooftop, was reviewed by local fire agencies and recognized to significantly reduce risk during a fire emergency. As part of the evaluation stage of the partnership, SCHOTT Solar and Tigo Energy engaged the installation community to validate the customer benefits of the solution. “The Tigo Energy Maximizer solution keeps the SCHOTT POLY 235 modules running at their peak output,” said Jeff Wiggins, CEO of SolNV and President of Nevada SEIA. “Tigo Energy and Schott Solar give our customers the peace-ofmind of being able to watch the energy production of each module for the full life of the installation.” SolNV completed the 5.7kW system installation earlier this year. Tigo Energy has developed its innovative Maximizer technology aimed at accelerating the adoption of today's photovoltaic components and technologies increasing system output and maintenance effectiveness. Tigo Energy products are available in high volume and can be deployed in residential, commercial or utility scale systems today. www.tigoenergy.com www.schottsolar.com 16
Surface cleaning > Wet cleaning Saw Damage Removing > Wet surface > Etching Firing > Infra red Belt > Furnace Texturization > Wet surface etching PN Junction > Plasma (R&D) Formation > Phosphorous diffusion PSG removal > Wet bench > PECVD Edge Isolation > Wet etching > Plasma Etching > Laser Cutting Anti reflective coating > PECVD > Sputtering Front Contact Deposition > Screen Printing (SP) > SP + Electroplating > Inkjet (R&D) Back Contact Deposition > Screen Printing OCTOBER 2010 issue n°100 THE DISRUPTIVE SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGIES MAGAZINE MARKET FOCUS Photovoltaic Technology Roadmap Latest technology trends in crystalline and thin-film solar cells: An overview on the PV industry up to 2015 Get a clear picture of tomorrow’s winning PV technologies. Yole Développement announces the release of its latest photovoltaic research study, named Photovoltaic Technology Roadmap, which presents and analyses the latest tech-nology trends in crystalline and thin-film solar cells. The results were obtained as a result of a meticulous data collection process over more than 80 companies and R&D labs. There is no doubt that the government incentive programs helped industrial to achieve, step by step, drastic cost reduction and performance improvements in a very short period of time but without real revolutions. The photovoltaic (PV) industry has also seen the emergence of large scale production facili-ties, international R&D centres, and innovative equipment makers thus resulting in the im-pressive cost reduction Yole Développement knows. But if large production facilities can play the scale effect card to lower the cost of raw material and increase their yield, many other levers exist in order to reduce the production cost. Photovoltaic Strategies to reduce production cost Price reduction - impact of raw material Increased light trapping effect by improving surface structuring and texturization © August 2010 Crystalline cell manufacturing process Crys Redistributing the emitter profile on the front surface Upgrading or changing metallization processes in order to get thinner contacts with excellent electrical properties New Step Optimizing the passivation layer on both surfaces to reduce the recombination losses In the next slides, further details on each step will be provided “In this PV Technology roadmap report, we describes all the different aspects linked to pro-duction cost reduction, explains Arnaud Duteil, Market & Technology Analyst at Yole Développement: from cell structure innovations to modification of manufacturing proc-esses.” The microtech market research company in fact describes all the existing technolo-gies: From those developed by the University of New South Wales (UNS W), to the metal wrap through (MWT) concept developed by the ECN and industrialized with Solland, to the new emitter wrap through (EWT) technology being developed by Bosh Solar. Conventional crystalline silicon cells could bump up against their theoretical maximum effi-ciency of 29% as soon as 2020. Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd., for instance, demonstrated ~23% ef-ficiency with a 10cm² R&D unit of its heterojunction with intrinsic thin layer (HIT) cells last year. It figures that thinner surface contacts, better transparent conductors, and lower defect density can improve performance by several more percentage points, to likely get commer-cial efficiency up to about as close as practical to the theoretical limit within about ten years. For more information about this report, please contact David Jourdan (jourdan@yole.fr) PV Incentive Programs Country Profiles Understand the impact of incentive programs on PV installations in more than 25 countries After discussing with key experts of each country, Yole has analysed their programs to provide an in-depth analysis on the PV demand. This report provides the best information on each country active in the PV field with data summarizing the type and the definition of incentive programs in a concise way. KEY FEATURES For each country the following information is provided: • General country data • Share of electricity by source • Irradiation map • Description of the incentive program • Breakdown of installation • Past amount of installation and forecast of governments CONTACT US For more information, feel free to contact David Jourdan: Tel: +33 472 83 01 90, Email: jourdan@yole.fr • Basic data • Irradiation Population 2006 (million) 61.35 GDP 2006 (billion 2000$) 1468.3 Growth of GDP 1990-2006 (%) 2% Total Energy production (Mtoe) 137.02 Energy use (Mtoe) 272.67 Energy use growth 2005-2006 (%) -1.18 Electricity production (GWh) 574473 Electricity consumption (GWh) 429913 Electric Power consumption per 7585 capita (kWh per capita) • Source of electricity Oil 1.24% Gas 3.84% Nuclear 78.37% Hydro 10.63% Coal/pet 4.58% Renewable & waste 0.96% Geothermal/Solar Thermal/wind 0.37% Solar PV 0.0038% • Feed-in-Tariffs* -Tariffs* 2010 granted for 20 years: Type of Type of building Feed-in-tariff Installation Houses, schools and hospitals 0.58 /kWh BIPV installations Industrial, commercial and agricultural buildings 0.50 /kWh Roof mounted Industrial, commercial and agricultural buildings 0.42 /kWh Ground mounted < 250 Kw 0.314 /kWh Ground mounted > 250 Kw 0.314 /kWh (High irradiation) 0.377 /kWh (Low irradiation) *Feed-in-tariffs will not change for the next 2 years. They will then be revised in 2012 based on inflation rate and price of installation by the Ministry of the environment and sustainable development. • Photovoltaic support scheme is today based on the “Decree of July the 10 th , 2006, modified on January the 13 th , 2010. • Capacity planned by the government (connected installations • Type of installations in MWp) – Grid Connected: 99 % 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2015 2020 • Residential (72%) • Commercial (15.7%) Annual 12 28 97 110 170 270 380 550 550 550 • Solar farms (12.3%) – Rural electrification: 1% Cumulative 45 73 170 280 450 720 1100 1650 2750 5500 Y O L E D É V E L O P P E M E N T Copyrights © Yole Développement SA. All rights reserved - Recycled paper 17
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