Photovoltaic industry and market investigation

Abstract

World photovoltaic industry has an average growth rate of 49.5% over the past five years. Chinese photovoltaic industry has a fast pace of growth at an annual rate of 400%. While our photovoltaic generation market is really small, the installation production is less than 2% of the battery production in 2007, 98% solar cells and components are exported to foreign countries. Thus, the serious lack of coordination for the photovoltaic industry and the photovoltaic generation market has become an obstacle to further development of our photovoltaic power generation. This paper analyzes photovoltaic power generation market and the status in quo, development of the market at home and abroad, also introduces the successful experiences of Germany, Japan, Spain and the like which are experts in photovoltaic power generation. Furthermore, photovoltaic market “on-line price” is a powerful measure to promote the development of photovoltaic power generation market. We analyze the cost of photovoltaic power generation and the change trend, as well as the feasibility of on-line price and the specific policies and measures based on the photovoltaic industrial surveys and learning curves of photovoltaic componential cost. Consequently, we give the proposals to our photovoltaic generation and look forward to the prospects of the photovoltaic power generation market.