PV Industry History: We've Come a Lot Farther Than We Think - Renewable Energy World

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PV Industry History: We've Come a Lot Farther Than We Think

by Paula Mints, Navigant Consulting

2009 is ending and with it a decade of significant upswings in sales and prices, and swoops downward of sales and prices. A severe raw material shortage constrained supply for at least four years during the strongest burst of demand the PV industry had ever seen (2004-2008, compound annual growth of >50% a year).

In 2000, Germany began its history making EEG (feed-in tariff), and in 2002 Japan ended its history-making residential rooftop subsidy (and started an FiT in November 2009). In 2001, California utility PG&E filed for bankruptcy protection, from which it emerged relatively unscathed. Also in 2001, polysilicon ...

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