Thin Film PV: The Pathway to Grid Parity

Buller, Benny; Eaglesham, D. J.

doi:10.1364/energy.2009.thd1

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“…Costs for production and recycling at First Solar were at $0.87/Wp in mid 2009 (30). The costs of installing and connecting the panel to the grid approximately double these costs (11,27). Similar cost ratios are expected for the near future with First Solar's planned reductions of 40-50% for total system costs and 35-50% for panel costs (27).…”

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confidence: 62%

“…The costs of installing and connecting the panel to the grid approximately double these costs (11,27). Similar cost ratios are expected for the near future with First Solar's planned reductions of 40-50% for total system costs and 35-50% for panel costs (27). Using Zweibel's calculation as above, 2 × $0.87 ) $1.74 translates into 7.7¢/kWh LCOE.…”

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confidence: 66%

“…Now hope is high that PV will soon achieve "grid parity", i.e. a price competitive with coal electricity (27). This should considerably accelerate adoption of PV.…”

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Indicators To Determine Winning Renewable Energy Technologies with an Application to Photovoltaics

Grossmann

Steininger

2010

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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Several forms of renewable energy compete for supremacy or for an appropriate role in global energy supply. A form of renewable energy can only play an important role in global energy supply if it fulfills several basic requirements. Its capacity must allow supplying a considerable fraction of present and future energy demand, all materials for its production must be readily available, land demand must not be prohibitive, and prices must reach grid parity in the nearer future. Moreover, a renewable energy technology can only be acceptable if it is politically safe. We supply a collection of indicators which allow assessing competing forms of renewable energy and elucidate why surprise is still a major factor in this field, calling for adaptive management. Photovoltaics (PV) are used as an example of a renewable energy source that looks highly promising, possibly supplemented by solar thermal electricity production (ST). We also show why energy use will contribute to land use problems and discuss ways in which the right choice of renewables may be indispensible in solving these problems.

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Indicators To Determine Winning Renewable Energy Technologies with an Application to Photovoltaics

Grossmann

Steininger

2010

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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“…Regarding decrease in material costs, Buller (2008) stated ''Materials cost is *50% of typical TF (thin film)-module cost. Current materials are still nonstandard'' and ''Volume drives the custom materials towards raw material cost''.…”

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Investment and employment from large-scale photovoltaics up to 2050

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Investments in renewable energy were at US$211 billion in 2010 and developing economies overtook developed ones for the first time in terms of new financial investments in renewable energy. Photovoltaics for generation of electricity from sunlight has the highest growth rate among the competing forms of renewable energy and has now begun to achieve grid parity in some regions. If these trends of investments continue, solar energy will play a major economic role. We analyze these developments and assess the ensuing amounts of investment and employment for a range of sizes of the sector of solar energy. We find that by 2050 electricity from photovoltaics could cover up to 90% of total global energy demand, with a then global capital investment in our main scenario in photovoltaic manufacturing capacity at 500 billion US$ 2010 by around 2030 and 1,500 billion by 2050. Employment in photovoltaic manufacturing is predicted to rise to 6 million by 2050. Sensitivity analysis with respect to the core parameters of assumptions is supplied.

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Thin Film PV: The Pathway to Grid Parity

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Indicators To Determine Winning Renewable Energy Technologies with an Application to Photovoltaics

Indicators To Determine Winning Renewable Energy Technologies with an Application to Photovoltaics

Investment and employment from large-scale photovoltaics up to 2050

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