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Global PV market and the UKPV Supply Chain
Alastair Wilson
Director Photonics and PlasticElectronics KTN
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Global PV Market & revenue forecast
Source: Displaybank Solar & Energy Dec 2008
PV Market Revised Outlook (2007-2013)
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2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
(Source : Solar Energy, Displybank Dec 2008)
PVMarketGW
Old Forecast New Forecast
4.6 78.9
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2005 2006 2007 2008F 2009F 2010F 2011F 2012F 2013F
Revenue[Bil.
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Solar Revenue
CAGR of 40% until 2013
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BCG Matrix of top 11country markets
Germany
USA
Japan
Japan
Japan
US
Question Mark
Poor Dog Cash Cows
Stars
Spain
Spain
India
China
Portugal
Portugal
India
Greece
France
FranceChinaGreece
300%
250%
200%
150%
100%
50%
0%
-50%
-100%
Italy
Germany
2007 2010E
0.1 1.0 10.0
Diameter : Market volume (newly installed MW)
X-axis : Relative market share (log)
Y-axis : CAGR 2004-2007, 2007-2010 Estimated
Italy
South Korea
South Korea
Germany
Germany
Germany
USA
USA
Japan
Japan
Japan
Japan
Japan
US
US
Question Mark
Poor Dog Cash Cows
Stars
Spain
Spain
Spain
Spain
India
India
China
Portugal
Portugal
India
Greece
France
FranceChinaGreece
300%
250%
200%
150%
100%
50%
0%
-50%
-100%
Italy
Italy
Germany
Germany
2007
2007 2010E
2010E
0.1 1.0 10.0
Diameter : Market volume (newly installed MW)
X-axis : Relative market share (log)
Y-axis : CAGR 2004-2007, 2007-2010 Estimated
Italy
South Korea
South Korea
Germany
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UK Installed PV power
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UK Renewables Generation
UK Renewables generation -2007
7
6
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ind
Solar
Hydro
Biomass
Total renew ables - 9.7T h Source BERR
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PV Market OverviewDemand & Production
Regional & national shares of global PV cell production(Source : Photon I nternational 2007)
Rest of Europe
8.2%
USA 6.8%
China 15.1%
India 1.4%
Japan 36.4%
Taiwan 6.7%
Rest of Asia 3.7%
Germany 20.0%
Middle East 0.3% Australia 1.3%
PVMarket Demand2008
Total 5.95 GW[source: Solarbuzz LLC]
Germany, 1.86
Rest of theWorl
(ROW), 0.21
Rest of Europe(ROE),0.31
UnitedStates, 0.36
Spain, 2.46
SouthKorea, 0.28
Italy, 0.24
Japan, 0.23
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Top 10 PV cell producers
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mono c-Si 43.4%multi c-Si 46.5%
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Monocrystalline silicon m-Si 24% 13-17% Industrial scale production
Polycrystalline silicon p-Si 18% 11-15% Industrial scale production
Amorphous silicon a-Si 11-12% 5-8% Industrial scale production
Copper Indium GalliumDiselenide
CIGS 18% 10-12% Industrial scale production
Cadmium Telluride CdTe 17% 10-12% Significant and growing share ofthe TF
market (mostly one company First Solar)
Organic - 5-8% ** Research Stage
Dye Sensitised DSSC 5-8% ** Pilot Production underway
Gallium Arsenide GaAs 25% ** Mostly aerospace applications
Gallium Arsenide
/Indium Phosphideetc
GaAs/InP 25-31% ** Research stage
EPIA
expects Th n F lm (CdTe, a S , CIG
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m8 The thin filmmarket is expected to take amuch larger share of the market. the efficiency numbers for CdTe & CIGS need to updated -
the reduction in costand equivalent orbetter effiiencies to C-Si are provign very attractive to buyers. Can only improve as yield goes
up and costs go down.
Soem question about the reliability of Organic and DSSC. Their low efficiencies mean that their targetmarket is larg scakle deploymenton materials that wouyld be used orinarllyin construction such as sheetmetal or tiles. Nevertheless C-Si is still a very large chunk of
the market.michael.cowin, 6/18/2009
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Organic Solar cells
Efficiencies typically5 8%
Market estimated to
be $1billion by 2015(Nanomarkets)
Application portableconsumer products
e g backpacks,umbrellas and tentsinto mobile powergenerators
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Characteristics of the PV Value chain
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PV value added chain for Crystallinesilicon solar cells
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Moduleproduction
Other PVsystem cpts
Sales &Installation
Maintenance
ighlypurified Si
Crystaldrawing
Cleaning Cellconnection
Inverters Transport Cleaning
Cleaning &separatingprocesses
Sawing Layer separation
Lamination Batteriesmaterial
Elevation Repair
Chemicals Etching Diffusion Glass,,EVA,
Tedlar
Mounting
material
Wiring
Etching Frame Cables Sales
Metalcoating
Connectionbox
Planning
Measuring Testing Mounting Demount
Packaging Recycling
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K PVValue Cha nMarg ns n the C S PVValue Cha n
A photovoltaic system is sold for approximately 8$/Watt peak which corresponds to:
Of the installation price, half
is the module & other half includes:
Inverter
Electrical wiring
Installation Today a module is sold for between around
5$/Wp with the following breakdown:
1$/Wp for the module
1 5$/Wp for the cell
2$/Wp for the wafer
It may be concluded here that, based on the
shortage of Silicon at the time, the margin of PV
manufacturers is very high
Margins are expected to be translated to the module and system supplier with the increase in siliconproduction capacity Some strategic alliances and purchases are occurring across the value chain to position companiesto capture future value
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m11 As may be seen there are quite a few steps in the production cycle which is similar to the semiconductor industry.
An large proportion of the cost ofa PV system is the BOS and installation but it is unclearas to what the margin is on this.michael.cowin, 6/18/2009
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Value chain for thin film solar cells
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Sales and
Installation
Maintenance
Chemicalprocesses
Sputtering Inverters Transport Cleaning
PECVDprocess
Batteries,material
Elevation Repair
Etching Mounting
material
Wiring Demount
Laser Cables Sales Recycling
Variousenrichments
Planning
Vacuum Mounting
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m10 far less players in the production value chain means lower production costs - hence the obvious attraction of Thin film technology. The
high margins mightbe over inflated at present due to the previous shortage of silicon - now alleviated by new Si production facilities
coming on line - however the economies of scale will likely push TF process costs down - demand will then determine margin.michael.cowin, 6/18/2009
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m12 There are a number of new entrants into the a-Si market (quite a few in Germany) . CdTe - there are only two companies ion the
world producingat the moment - other entrants in the pipe line - First Solar (US) has cleaned up with combination of low costand
increased solar efficiency 1 billion dollars worth of orders. Where the ramp up in CIS/CIGS is going to come from is unclear - not too
many companies in the pipeline to enter the market.michael.cowin, 6/17/2009
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UK PV Solar cell / modulecompanies
1 UK companies involved in solar cell/modulemanufacture and R & D
Total production capacity in 200 is 2 3MW (4%of world production)
Two companies Sharp Electronics UK and
Romag account for % of this capacity Majority of UK companies are currently in the
development stage
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K PVValue Cha nK Solar cell & module manufacturers
Commercial position of UK based solar cell and modulemanufacturers
Current
developent
status
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2012
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asol [c]
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cesis [c]
Pol
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Ionotec [c]
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CST [c]
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m14 As can be seen from this graph the number of UKbased companies is few and farbetween. There are some interesting startups such
as Trackdale (Quantum Dots). Whitfiled and Solarempowerare both due to start prioduction - and are hoping to use the NaREC as
their Si solar cell supplier - pendinga spin outat NaREC.
G24 as faras I can tell are not producing product. Neither is Dyesol - they are still in the development stage. Polysolarare in stealthmode (transparentglass solar cell) Advandcesis. NOTE : The real stars are EPOD - A FULL a-Si production facility in Bridgend (just laid
20 people off - think it is due to the business model of their parent company) and CST - potentially big impact on growing III-V CPV
market.michael.cowin, 6/18/2009
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UK P alueChainUK P alueChain ata
UKSolar cell and odule anu acturers
UK presencein anu acture o cells and odules is inor
UKSolar cell anu acture
m-Si, p-Si Na EC Pilot Plant only)
GaAs IQE,CST,Quantasol, Advancesis prototype only)
UKSolar modulemanu acture
m-Si, p-Si - Sharp, omag
a-Si EP [ Full production acility !
SSC - yesol,G24
Opportunityin GaAs,CdTe, SSCcell and module
manu acture
World Solar cell
manu
acture
m-Si
p-SiGaAs
UK 1 4
Germany 10 1
Italy 5 1
S
ain 5 -
OtherEU 16 -
China
-
Ja
an 4 -
India 13 -
Other
P
C 25 2
US
14 6
Canada 2 -
MiddleEast 2 -
Solarmodule
manu
acture
m-Si
p-SiCdTe a-Si
CIS
CIGS
CP
GaAs
SSC
OP
TotalWorld 671 5 100 25 45 6
UK 2 - 1 - - 2
Germany 45 1 12 10 2 1
China 372 - 33 1 3 -
US
23 4 10 6 19 4(17)
Source: enf.cn2009m2
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m2 Notice the numberof Chinese players alone in the C-Si market - Would appeara definite no go for cell ormodule production in the UK
butabigmarket for complimentary technologies serving this market thatmight allow amanufacturer to differentiate its product -
US is going for GaAs CPV or variants in abig way.
UK is stand alone in DSSC market - the number in brackets denotes the number of new entrants in the pipeline - mostly in Organic PV17 for the USAgain notice the low number of players in the
CdTe arenamichael.cowin, 6/18/2009
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UK PV ComplementaryTechnologies
Si/TF
BasicMaterial
C-Si/GaAs
Wa er
Production
C-Si/GaAs
Solar Cell
Production
C-Si
Module
Production
Thin Film
Module
production
P
System
components
Sales
Installation
Maintenance
Highly urified Si Crystal drawing Cleaning Cell connection S uttering Inverters Trans ort Cleaning
Cleaning and
separatingprocess
Sawing Layer separation Lamination PECVD processBatteries,
material Elevation Repair
Chemicals Etching Diff usionGlass, EV
,
TedlarEtching
Mounting
materialWiring
Demount
Chemical Processes Etching Frame Laser Cables Sales
Recycling
Metal coating Connection box
Various
enrichments
Planning
Measuring Testing Vacuum Mounting
Pac aging
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Mining, processing of raw materials such as Si, Cu, Te,In etc
Sawing machines (Si blocks to form wafers)
Wafer machines
Process cleaning
Cell machines
Wet chemistry (cleaning , structuring and AR coating)
Laser technology (contacts, sputtering)
Vacuum technology (PECVD, sputtering,monocrystalline Si production)
Printing machines (contacts)
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UK PV ComplementaryIndustry
3 UK companies involved in equipmentfor PV manufacturing
UK companies are involved across the PVvalue chain
Materials and equipment expertise for PVmanufacture is a UK strength with several
world class companies Particular strengths in thin film and III V
CPV solar cell production
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UK P alueChainUK P alueChain ata
UK P alueChain Overview
Screen PrintingEquipment
MCI Cambridge
DEK PrintingMachines
Wa
er Processing
Equipment
STS
Laytontechnologies
Logitech
Applied
Microengineering
Coatings
ilms,
Metallisation
Busbar
ACC silicones
Solarwire
Electrapolymers
CPFilms
acuumEquipment
Edwards
Consarc
General Vacuum
Equipment
aserMicromaching
Equipment
Oxford Lasers
OpTEK Systems
M-Solv
Oerli on Optics UK Ltd
awMaterials Supply
Electrapolymers
ABSCOMaterials
Epichem (Sigma Aldrige)
Pilington
Pi-KEM
Keeling & Wal
er
Merc Speciality
Chemicals
PV Crystalox Solar
MCP
DepositionEquipment
Gencoa
Oxford Instruments
AppliedMultilayers
Veeco
OxfordApplied
Research
CVD Technologies
Thermco Systems
PlasmaQuest
National
DCentres
EPSRC III-V Centre
CREST
CSER
NaREC
PETEC
CellManu
acturer
EPOD
G24
NaREC
CST
IQE
Dyesol
ModuleManu
acturer
EPOD
G24
Sharp
Romag
Dyesol
Analysis,Metrology
Equipment
LSA
CERAM
EnergyEquipment
Testing
MicroMaterials
MATS (UK) Ltd [CSMA]
HidenAnalytical
Metryx
OR
S
Wa er based solar Thin Film based solar
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m4 We may see here that there is enough companies in the UK to serve the production/value chain ofa UKbased C- Si industry and more
importantly a UKbased thin film industry - the only missinggaps in the value chain are the companies actually producing the cell and
modules - other than thatmost of the value chain is already there and serving the overseas PV industry. Particular excellence in
deposition, materials (III-V, CdTe etc ) and analysis equipment - all vital to the Thin Film & CPV industry.michael.cowin, 6/18/2009
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UK P alueChainConclusions
P Industry
Now silicon supply surplus, will drivec-Sicost down, willma e apossibly overpopulated sector verycompetitive
Thin ilm solar highest growth potential - CIGS ollowed byCdTe expected TF to have20% share o global P sector by2010
Thin ilm productionmethods stillin development but potentialmargins in thin ilm sector higher than c-Si
III- CP has a lot o potential limitedmar et reportcoverage buta lot o USinvestment and interestin development o associatedtechnologies such as concentrator optics
Feed in Tarrifs would have a hockey stickeffect on domestic Pindustry[Quote Sharp] But we do not havethecell andmodulemanufacturing capacityto capitalise
After allthat.. It appearsmargins are probably higher justininstallation..
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m5 The surplus in silicon will now make the c-si market super competitive - especially when you see he number of players (chinamore so)
- bound to be shake up as TF takes more ofamarket share.
CAGR for this film is impressive even after the downgraded forecasts are taken ionto account due to the recession. III-V is also very
interestingarea that the US are targeting. [we here at OpTIC have had a lot of interest in solar concentrators for this application form
US and Germany which bears this out] With the CST/IQE development work on multijunction components and our capability this has
potential formanufacturing capability.michael.cowin, 6/18/2009
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UK P alueChainConclusions
UK P alueChain
UK has comprehensive, world class valuechain capability exceptfor vitalgaps in Cell and ModuleManufacture aluechain currently provides goodsto overseas P industry
Good news ? ack oflegacyUKSi production facility allows clean sheetapproach to development ofnovelThin Film production capabilities
ManyUK P related organisations associations but no clear central body(without domesticmarket their usefulness is questionable - comment byUK Pindustry)
CdTe,III- solar sectors TheUK has centres ofexcellencein thesefields whichappears to coincide with market opportunity.
Market differentiation everything FirstSolar [CdTe 1Billion $ order book]ifUK wereto attemptto filltheCell and Module gaps in the P valuechainwould haveto have strong differentiation
Growing capabilityin organic solar cells via PETEC,CDT and emerging start ups
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m6 The majorgap is the lack of production capacity for cells and modules [other than sharp]
The rest of the value chain exists with notable excelence in Deposition techniques, lasermicromachingand chemical/material research.
This lack of legacu equipmentmay be ablessign in disguise.. high capital expenditure does not need to be justified by sticking with
c-Si. We are more agile and as such can move into the emerging Thin Film sector which will offer such costand efficiency advantages
that it will take agreater share of the market with time. Ultimately it will move to R2R production. There was a distinct lack of interest
and even contempt forassoc and orgs in the UK - general response - no market why bother we sell to overseas customers. CdTe and
III-V are without question great opportunities for the UK to move into to plug the gaps in the Value Chain - both areas where we havegreat expertise - Differentiation : Efficiency and costreduction is amassive customer draw away from C-Si as demonstrated by First
Solar CdTe 1 billion dollars with of orders - and they are the only major player. As mentioned already and well known the margins to
be had are equal if notgreater in the systems/installation arena - butbeyond the scope of this study.
Most publications, associations/forums/mags thatare used are usually based-produced overseas - since that is where the market is.michael.cowin, 6/18/2009
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UK Feed in Tariffs
Will we have feed in tariffs in the UK for PVinstallation?
In July 200 UK Govt announced in The UK
Low Carbon Transition PlanThe Government s putt ng n place f nanc al
rewards for small scale low car on electr c ty
generat on, w th Feed n Tar ffs from Apr l 1
A household with a well sited photovoltaicinstallation could receive over 800 plus billsavings of around 140 per year
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8/7/2019 Session 1 - UK Photo Voltaic Supply Chain Presented by Alastair Wilson
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Knowledge Transfer Networks
Accelerating business innovation;
A Technology Strategy Board programme
Summary
UK is a minor player in the global PV cell andmodule production
UK has many companies who support the PVindustry worldwide in terms of productionequipment and materials
The UK Govt is about to introduce a form offeed in tariff for low carbon electricitygeneration of which PV is one option
This will change the UK PV domestic market This will lead to new opportunities for the UKs
PV solar cell/module manufacturing industry