Polysilicon and Thin film solar A
Global recession means that the investment risk of the increase, while the Chinese and foreign VCs are not afraid of risk at this time, the collective investment in thin film solar market trends. Since July, Lenovo, Intel, International Finance Corporation (IFC) and other foreign venture has to thin film solar industry investment. What this series of actions to convey the signal? Following the crystalline silicon cells in 2005 and last year after the polycrystalline silicon cells, thin film solar cell will be set up to become a new flashpoint in the industry?
Surge in investment in the field of thin film batteries Trends
July, Legend Capital has just raised a new fund Phase IV, injection of advanced solar energy company in Zhejiang, the company engaged in the cadmium telluride thin film solar battery production.
The end of October, Intel CEO Paul Otellini announced three investment plans, invested $ 20,000,000 of which the benefits from investment in the Shenzhen Science and Technology (thin film solar development, and manufacturing and solutions provider).
November 5, the World Bank Group International Finance Corporation (IFC) announced that China's new Olympic Group will ENN Solar Energy Co., Ltd. to provide 136 million U.S. dollars, the construction of a large thin-film solar module production line.
In a sense, venture capital is changing the layout from the mainstream manufacturers smell a harbinger of changes in the industry.
The development of upstream crystalline silicon cells suffer the pain of tight supply of silicon material, silicon material in the upstream supply short-term case of no solution, the world's leading manufacturers of photovoltaic cells have increased their investment in thin film photovoltaic cells.
Already learned the information, including: the global leader Q-Cells solar cells to promote the existing commercial line of thin-film battery technology, a-Si, CdTe and CIGS are inputs; Japanese giant Sharp in the LCD field, with its technology, focus on the development of silicon thin film photovoltaic cells (a-Si/μc-Si) field, announced in 2010 to build 1GW of silicon thin film photovoltaic cell production capacity; critical process is limited by lack of equipment and technology, Suntech becomes relatively less in 2009, Silicon thin film photovoltaic cell production capacity building program is only 50MW.
Analysis of the development of promising thin-film batteries
Why VCs risk of excluding the economic downturn, generous toward thin-film battery? "Daily Economic News" contacted the president of a Shanghai investment company, he said, has been movement within the industry leading companies focus on the scope of investment in the wind, which often become the incentive for its actions.
Thin-film batteries cost advantages are obvious
"Cost." When asked the advantages of thin-film batteries, the Great Wall Securities analyst Zhou Tao first time gives the answer.
The cost of restricting the development of crystalline silicon cells a major obstacle. First of all, benefit from the industry into a boom cycle, the price of high-purity silicon corresponding increased significantly. Zhou Tao said that 2003 prices are still 30 U.S. dollars / kg, the mid-2008 increased sharply to 800 U.S. dollars / kg. "2007 China PV Industry Development Report" shows that the total cost, accounting for the cost of silicon materials reached 56.2%, followed by the technological monopoly from suppliers. Zhou Tao, said high purity silicon production process requirements on high until last year, its production technology and market supply is monopolized by the major manufacturers and downstream manufacturers under great constraints.
In contrast, in the cost thin-film batteries have a very competitive source of a wide range of raw materials, an adequate supply for the downstream attractive. In recent years, the CdTe (cadmium telluride)-based thin-film batteries is growing rapidly. Information to U.S. companies FirstSolar CdTe-based production and sales of batteries, in the film market share from 7% in 2003 increased sharply to 47% last year.
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