Icarus expert elicitation reports
Issue no. 1– June 2011
Figure 2: Performances of different solar cells Source: Kazmerski, 2009. Production cell efficiency tends to lag the champion-cell figure by about two years.
Module cost (2005 $/Wp)
6 5 4 3 2 1 0 c-Si
Concentrator mc-Si
mc-Si (EU) Supermono c-Si
a-Si
CIS/CIGS
CdTe
Figure 3: Costs in 2005USD per peak watt (Wp) Sources: Greentech, 2009; EIA, 2007. Note that the module costs for concentrators are currently interested by large variations. Abbreviations: c-SI=Crystaline Silicon Single Crystallinge; Mc-Si: Globally vertically integrated multi crystaline silicon; Super c-Si: Supermono c-Si; a-Si: Thin-film amourphous silicon; CIS/CIGS: Thin-film copper indium gallium diselenide; Cd-Te: Thin-film Cadmium telluride.
While supportive policies are necessary to achieve GHG emission reductions in the EU, they represent costly options for policy makers. The
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