Modeling the cost and minimum sustainable price of crystalline silicon photovoltaic manufacturing in the united states

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 662-668

  Powell, Douglas M ^a   Winkler, Mark T ^a,b   Goodrich, Alan ^c   Buonassisi, Tonio ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Costs; industrial economics; manufacturing; photovoltaic cells; profitability

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY; CRYSTALLINE SILICON WAFERS; CRYSTALLINE SILICONS; MANUFACTURING CONCEPTS; MODULE MANUFACTURING; MULTI-CRYSTALLINE SILICON; REDUCTION POTENTIAL; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MANUFACTURE; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PROFITABILITY; SILICON WAFERS;

COSTS;

EID: 84875600234     PISSN: 21563381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2012.2230056     Document Type: Article

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