Abstract
The road map for cost competitive large-scale PV deployment is ever changing and with PV grade poly silicon prices averaging 16 U$D/kg and companies focusing on using less materials the cost effectiveness of readily available materials for solar cell applications should be revisited. In this work we analyze to which extent the extraction cost of the absorber layer material plays a role in the overall cost of generating electricity, taking into account the potential for light trapping and the non-power producing component costs. Our calculations show that nearly all presently used materials have fundamental cost and availability potential which are well below a level at which material availability is a dominant consideration. Instead, constraints on parameters such as the amount of copper for wiring or substrate material for module fabrication become dominant issues.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
| Pages | 3353-3356 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781479932993 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2013 |
| Event | 39th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2013 - Tampa, FL, United States Duration: Jun 16 2013 → Jun 21 2013 |
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| Other | 39th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2013 |
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| Country | United States |
| City | Tampa, FL |
| Period | 6/16/13 → 6/21/13 |
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Keywords
- Balance of systems
- BOS
- Cost analysis
- Earth abundant materials
- Materials availability
- PV deployment
- Solar cells
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Control and Systems Engineering
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
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Sensitivity analysis of materials availability for terawatt PV deployment. / Jeffries, April; Bowden, Stuart; Honsberg, Christiana; Bertoni, Mariana.
Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2013. p. 3353-3356 6745169.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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