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Photovoltaics Guidebook for Decision-Makers pp 107–178Cite as

Industrial Technology and Cost Reduction Assessment

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To evaluate the potential of cost reduction and its possible realization for industrial photovoltaic production, the following questions have to be answered:

  • What is the possible speed of technological progress concerning production cost and what conditions are required?

  • What is the possible rate of technology transfer to manufacturing?

  • What is the speed of market development in relation to investment cycles in fabrication?

  • How do the answers finally fit into a strategic scheme?

  • What are the social and political boundary conditions for this process?

  • What are the cost (public od private) to accelerate this process?

and after all, if there are useful answers to all these questions,

  • How do the answers finally fit into a strategic scheme?

  • What are the social and political boundary conditions for this process?

  • What are the cost (public od private) to accelerate this process?

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  1. Fachhochschule Ulm, Ulm University of Applied Sciences, Prittwitzstr. 10, 89028, Ulm, Germany

    Achim Bubenzer

  2. Fraunhofer Institut für Solare Energiesysteme, Oltmannstr. 5, 79110, Freiburg, Germany

    Joachim Luther

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Schott, T. (2003). Industrial Technology and Cost Reduction Assessment. In: Bubenzer, A., Luther, J. (eds) Photovoltaics Guidebook for Decision-Makers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05140-5_3

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