What is behind the recent dramatic reductions in photovoltaic prices? The role of china

Marigo, Nicoletta; Candelise, Chiara

doi:10.3280/poli2013-003001

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“…The crystalline or multi-crystalline silicon (c-Si) devices convert sunlight to electricity with efficiency in the range 15-25% and cover around the 90% of the market due to the consolidated experience in manufacture and processing from the microelectronics industry. The cost of silicon PV modules has felt down from 15 €/Wp to lower than 1 €/Wp encouraging its growth [23,24]. Alternative technologies are represented by thin films, characterized by lower cost (0.6 €/Wp) and efficiency, and multiple layers of different semiconductors with efficiency over 30%, but, due to the expensive manufacturing production, lower diffusion [25].…”

Section: Co Reduction Through the Integration Of Renewable Electrical Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

Reducing energy costs and CO2 emissions by production system energy flexibility through the integration of renewable energy

Materi

D’Angola

Enescu

et al. 2021

Prod. Eng. Res. Devel.

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In recent years, the production of renewable energy has increased continuously to reduce fossil fuel consumption and CO2 emissions and to increase energy efficiency. The challenge of industries is to integrate renewable energy systems into the existing power system of manufacturing industries. In the energy flexibility approach, the manufacturing energy demand is aligned with renewable energy availability, to improve the use of the renewable energy source. This paper aims to investigate a manufacturing system supplied by a photovoltaic plant coupled with a battery storage system. A basic storage model has been developed and implemented to pursue this issue. The model is applied in the simplified case of a manufacturing system composed of a cutting numerical control machine, which can adapt the cutting speed to align the power needed to the power supplied by the photovoltaic plant. However, the model can be extended to realistic production cases characterized by complex systems as long as the time evolution of energy consumptions are known in detail. The introduction of battery storage allows reducing the cutting speed fluctuations, improving the cutting life derived from the fatigue effect. This solution reduces the costs of the machine and improves the forecasting of the means needed for the manufacturing system. Finally, a detailed analysis of greenhouse gas reduction is discussed.

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Section: Co Reduction Through the Integration Of Renewable Electrical Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

Reducing energy costs and CO2 emissions by production system energy flexibility through the integration of renewable energy

Materi

D’Angola

Enescu

et al. 2021

Prod. Eng. Res. Devel.

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Quantifying the costs of diversifying silicon PV module assembly with local economic policies

Dehghanimadvar,

Egan,

Chang

2024

Joule

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The dynamics of solar PV costs and prices as a challenge for technology forecasting

Candelise

Winskel

Groß

2013

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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An effective energy technology strategy has to balance between setting a stable long term framework for innovation, while also responding to more immediate changes in technology cost and performance. Over the last decade, rather than a steady progression along an established learning curve, PV costs and prices have been volatile, with increases or plateaus followed by rapid reductions. The paper describes, and considers the causes of, recent changes in PV costs and prices at module and system level, both international trends and more place-specific contexts. It finds that both module and system costs and price trends have reflected multiple overlapping forces. Established forecasting methodsexperience curves and engineering assessmentshave limited ability to capture key learning effects behind recent PV cost and price trends: production scale effects, industrial reorganization and shakeouts, international trade practices and national market dynamics. These forces are likely to remain prominent aspect of technology learning effects in the foreseeable futureand so are in need of improved, more explicit representation in energy technology forecasting.

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What is behind the recent dramatic reductions in photovoltaic prices? The role of china

Cited by 4 publications

References 19 publications

Reducing energy costs and CO2 emissions by production system energy flexibility through the integration of renewable energy

Reducing energy costs and CO2 emissions by production system energy flexibility through the integration of renewable energy

Quantifying the costs of diversifying silicon PV module assembly with local economic policies

The dynamics of solar PV costs and prices as a challenge for technology forecasting

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