Featured in Disrupt this space – 01-2015

Thin film’s past, present and potential

Thin film PV: Paula Mints, founder and chief market research analyst of the global solar market research firm SPV Market Research, analyses the development of thin film PV and explains where growth may be possible in the future.

During the mid to late 2000s, the European feed-in tariff drove demand to gigawatt levels and did it fast – too fast for an industry used to start/stop incentives to do more than react to a suddenly strong market. This period did not afford PV industry participants time for planning. Those who had available capacity …

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