The capital intensity of photovoltaics manufacturing: barrier to scale and opportunity for innovation
Using a bottom-up cost model, we assess the impact of initial factory capital expenditure (capex) on photovoltaic (PV) module minimum sustainable price (MSP) and industry-wide trends. We find capex to have two important impacts on PV manufacturing. First, capex strongly influences the per-unit MSP o...
Main Authors: | Powell, Douglas M., Fu, Ran, Horowitz, Kelsey, Basore, Paul A., Woodhouse, Michael, Buonassisi, Tonio |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering |
Format: | Article |
Language: | en_US |
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Royal Society of Chemistry
2016
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101914 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8345-4937 |
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