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Learning how to read a learning curve

Market analysis: The last edition of the International Technology Roadmap for Photovoltaic (ITRPV) roadmap addressed the end of the learning curve for PV modules as we know it. What lies behind the end of the learning curve is also the end of a common belief: industries cannot always be compared and PV is no exception to a common Shaddock-style rule: “if you believe you know what is going to happen, then you did something wrong”, argues Becquerel Institute co-founder and director Gaëtan Masson.

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13 Apr 2017

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What ITRPV came with is a simple learning curve based on the cheapest PV modules (something easily assessed) and starting at the beginning of the PV industrialization in 2008. Since then more than 300 GW have been installed, and before this point in 2008 the global capacity stood below 10 GW, a figure that included …

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