Economics of future growth in photovoltaics manufacturing

2015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages

  Basore, Paul A ^a   Chung, Donald ^a   Buonassisi, Tonio ^b  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

capex; manufacturing; photovoltaics

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; INVESTMENTS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

CAPEX; CAPITAL INVESTMENT; GLOBAL INVESTMENTS; GLOBAL MANUFACTURING; MANUFACTURING CAPACITY; MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES; PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES; PHOTOVOLTAICS;

MANUFACTURE;

EID: 84961637921     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2015.7355620     Document Type: Conference Paper

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