Comments on: Solar Production Module Costs To Decline To As Low As $0.48/W Within Five Years: Report http://cleantechnica.com/2012/12/18/solar-production-module-costs-to-decline-to-as-low-as-0-48w-within-five-years-report/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Mon, 29 Dec 2014 03:30:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Bob_Wallace http://cleantechnica.com/2012/12/18/solar-production-module-costs-to-decline-to-as-low-as-0-48w-within-five-years-report/#comment-144278 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 19:15:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=46288#comment-144278 Thanks, Thomas.

News like this makes me feel like we have a decent chance of avoiding the worst of climate change.

If Germany could only package its BOS prices and ship them out to the rest of the world…

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The fully automated factory producing at $0.48/w is likely to cause problems for Chinese manufacturers. Their labor cost advantages are neutralized. Cheaper to ship factories close to market than to ship a continuing stream of product.

]]> By: ThomasGerke http://cleantechnica.com/2012/12/18/solar-production-module-costs-to-decline-to-as-low-as-0-48w-within-five-years-report/#comment-144270 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:05:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=46288#comment-144270 This year a solar factory-line manufacturer (German style ;) – don’t build the stuff, build the factory that makes stuff) has presented their new CIGSfab fully automated production line….
The current 200MW version produces CIGS-Thin film panels for $0.55/Wp and the scaled up 1GW production line could achieve $0.48/Wp.

If investment capital find its way, we could already be in 2017 next year ;)

]]> By: Bob_Wallace http://cleantechnica.com/2012/12/18/solar-production-module-costs-to-decline-to-as-low-as-0-48w-within-five-years-report/#comment-144237 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 06:53:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=46288#comment-144237 “However, the report projected that Cadmium telluride (CdTe) modules would remain the least expensive option in the market for years to come, with prices reaching as low as $0.48/W by 2017.

Meanwhile, COGS all around is projected between 2012 through 2017, as copper indium gallium (di) selende thin-film modules decline to $0.64/W, a 14 cent price difference from today’s costs.”

Silicon module prices last Wednesday were an average of $0.66/watt with a low of $0.54/watt.

Thin film was $0.62/watt average and $0.52/watt low. Only four cents higher than as the minimum predicted.

Looks like 2017 is going to arrive fairly soon….

http://pvinsights.com/

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