NDLI: Green energy visions: personal views on the future of photovoltaics

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Green, M.A.
Copyright Year	2003
Description	Author affiliation: Centre of Excellence for Adv. Silicon Photovoltaics & Photonics, New South Wales Univ., Sydney, NSW, Australia (Green, M.A.)
Abstract	This opening plenary presentation is to honour the award to the author of a Right Livelihood Award, also known as an "Alternative Nobel Prize", in the Swedish Parliament in December, 2002. In this presentation, the author gives his views on the future of photovoltaics. He argues that current bulk wafer and ribbon approaches are too material intensive to allow the low costs required for photovoltaics to reach its full potential. A transition to thin-film technology is essential for this to occur. The reasons as to why this transition has been so difficult to achieve are then explored. The author identifies a certain "lack of robustness" of the candidate thin-films as the key reason for their failure. He provides evidence that this is not a universal thin-film feature, but demonstrates that modules even more robust than standard bulk silicon are possible, given an appropriate materials selection. It is then argued that a sensible strategy for companies feeling the pressure on prices being applied by the large manufacturers is not to try to compete on volume, but exploit the lower manufacturing costs per unit volume possible with more recent, rugged thin-films.
File Size	336267
File Format	PDF
ISBN	4990181603
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2003-05-11
Publisher Place	Japan
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	PVSEC Advisory Committee
Subject Keyword	Photovoltaic cells Costs Transistors Silicon Robustness Manufacturing Power generation Large-scale systems Photonics Australia
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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