Featured in Lean machines – 09-2011

A thin film frontier

Japan: Previously having only a relatively minor slice of the thin film PV market, Solar Frontier has not been making too many waves. But from their coastal city Miyazaki in southern Japan, the company is raising new facilities with the potential to make a major splash.

By

Jonathan Gifford

31 Aug 2011

The thin film PV market in 2010 was worth some 3.4 gigawatts (GW). Competing in a wider PV market where mono- and poly-crystalline modules still dominate, some expect thin film manufacturers to compete for a market share of 18 to 20 percent in the near future, increasing to 20 to 25 by 2015. Essentially thin …

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