Featured in Technology highlights 2018 – 05-2018

Starter for 10

Under the hood of PV’s biggest manufacturers: The top 10 PV manufacturers in 2017 are a familiar bunch, and it is important to understand why, amid the shifting trends and divergent fortunes of leading players, the current crop of companies are where they are – a top 10 list, given context, is a window into the machinations of the solar industry.

At the end of 2017, 376.6 GWp of PV cells/modules had been shipped into the global market for deployment of photovoltaics into all applications, from consumer indoor products (calculators and watches), to consumer power applications (battery charging primarily), as well as to residential and all commercial and industrial (C&I) installations, right through to multi-gigawatt (utility-scale) …

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