The Role of Policy in PV Industry Growth: Past, Present and Future

Byrne, John; Kurdgelashvili, Lado

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“…Nonetheless, the German market demonstrated high growth until recently as a result of the synergy between the successful technology‐push and the market‐pull policies . The first German PV targeted subsidy scheme started with the ‘1000 Solar Roofs Initiative’ (1991–1995) . The 100,000 Solar Roofs Initiative (1999–2003) was then rolled out, which caused a rapid increase in the installation of PV systems in the early 2000s .…”

Section: Global Photovoltaic Supply and Demand With Case Studies Of mentioning

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Solar photovoltaic energy policy and globalization: a multiperspective approach with case studies of Germany, Japan, and China

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Geoffron

2014

Progress in Photovoltaics

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Solar photovoltaic (PV) systems have experienced strong market growth over the last decade. Since the mid‐2000s, the increase in demand in line with policy supports in Europe has attracted the Chinese players into the PV manufacturing market. Chinese production soared in a short time and managed to quickly reduce the cost thanks to large‐scale supply with mass‐produced products. Faced with the global economic crisis, the European countries began reducing their policy supports that caused a decrease in the demand for PV installations. Despite such a market situation, Chinese PV manufacturers have continued to produce large quantities of solar PV products and thereby aggravated the global PV industry situation with a global supply–demand imbalance. China's rapid market expansion without domestic market development has brought unexpected results with an oversupply of PV materials and equipment in a global market and destabilized the PV market. It influenced the PV policy mechanisms of other countries. Many PV firms in the world have since gone into bankruptcy. China and Europe lately went through a trade dispute over the Chinese solar panel imports (dumping suspicion). In this context, this study aims to identify the PV policy mechanisms based on a multiperspective approach in Germany, Japan, and China. A systematic logical framework is proposed and then used to explain each country's PV policy strategy and results. Moreover, PV globalization impacts and interactions among them are studied using the international trade theory. At the end, this research also attempts to seek optimal strategies to improve the global PV mechanisms. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Section: Global Photovoltaic Supply and Demand With Case Studies Of mentioning

confidence: 99%

Solar photovoltaic energy policy and globalization: a multiperspective approach with case studies of Germany, Japan, and China

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Geoffron

2014

Progress in Photovoltaics

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“…13 Oil, natural gas, and coal demonstrate similar price volatility. 14,15 This volatility comes with a substantial social cost, 16 as price volatility can spill over into non-energy commodity markets, 17 which can degrade essential livelihoods support markets such as the agricultural market. 18 In the context of volatile and rising conventional energy prices, the concept of the green energy economy offers solace.…”

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Green energy economies: the search for clean and renewable energy

2014

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“…Among the wide range of existing renewable energy sources, solar photovoltaics (PV) is considered as "the cleanest and safest technology with which to generate electricity even at the GW production scale" [1, p. 24]. Since the discovery of PV effect in the nineteenth century, the technology has experienced dramatic development vertically -in terms of solar cell types, technological generations and efficiencies [2,3], horizontally -in terms of its associated technical fields in chemistry, physics, electronics, and mechanics [4,1], as well as on the market dynamics level of production and deployment [5,6,7,8].…”

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Advances in solar photovoltaics: Technology review and patent trends

Shubbak

2019

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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Against the pressing challenges of climate change and fossil fuel depletion, renewable energy sources such as solar photovoltaics (PV) are considered a clean and sustainable alternative. PV technologies have grown into a substantial field of research and development through large stocks of scientific publications and patents. Besides cell technologies, the balance of system (BoS) components such as panels, electronics and energy storage form an important research area. The present article studies the development of the PV technological system using patent indicators. It is composed of three parts: First, it defines the system by thoroughly reviewing the various cell and BoS technologies. Second, it introduces a novel methodical approach for identifying its relevant patents. In that sense, the paper contributes with an accurate inventory of international patent classes for PV system. Finally, the geographical, organizational and technical trends over the past six decades are analysed along with a review of the most influential inventions. The analysis shows that 95% of the PV patent applications are filed by inventors from seven countries: Japan, Korea, China, USA, Germany, Taiwan, and France. Most patents are filed by companies and related to thin-film and crystalline-silicon cells as well as panel encapsulation and supporting structures. The analysis reviews the quantity, quality and technological specialization within countries' patent profiles. It further provides an overview of the technological landscape and freedom-spaces available for manufacturers.

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The Role of Policy in PV Industry Growth: Past, Present and Future

Cited by 8 publications

References 40 publications

Solar photovoltaic energy policy and globalization: a multiperspective approach with case studies of Germany, Japan, and China

Solar photovoltaic energy policy and globalization: a multiperspective approach with case studies of Germany, Japan, and China

Green energy economies: the search for clean and renewable energy

Advances in solar photovoltaics: Technology review and patent trends

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