Solar cell materials and components

Manufacturers

I    Solar Cell Materials and Components Market: Overview and Future Prospects

• Solar Cell Market is expected to grow to a level of 60GW by 2020
• Among various materials of solar cells, Cdte and thin film silicon have been slowing down, whereas CIGS (Copper indium gallium selenide) is increasing.  Crystalline silicon is likely to drive the whole market.
• Manufacturers now develop/promote energy solutions rather than conventional cell modules.
• It is indispensable to identify the field that manufacturers can win.
• China, now a large production base, wields strong clout over the whole market.
• Product development presuming where/how to use gives Japanese makers some edge in the competition.

II     Trends and Outlook of Solar Cell Market

1. Outlook of crystal silicon solar cell market
2. Outlook of thin-film silicon solar cell market
3. Outlook of other thin-film solar cell market:

• CIGS solar cell market
• CdTe solar cell market

4. Outlook of organic/polymer solar cell market

• Dye-sensitized solar cell
• Organic thin-film solar cell market

III     Trends and Strategies of Leading Solar Cell Makers

Sharp Corporation
KYOCERA Corporation
Panasonic Corporation
Solar Frontier K.K.
FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD
Fujikura Ltd
Hitachi Zosen Corporation
The Shimane Institute for Industrial Technology
Motech Industries, Inc.
Gintech Energy Corporation
Neo Solar Power Corporation
NexPower Technology Corporation
Hanwha Chemical Corporation
HYUNDAI HEAVY INDUSTRIES Co., Ltd.

IV     Trends and Outlook of Solar Cell Materials and Component Market

1. Outlook of Polycrystalline Silicon Market

• The market is expected to supply 380000 tons of polycrystalline silicon globally in 2012. Supply and demand is likely to stabilized in 2015 at the earliest.

2. Outlook of seal material market
3. Backsheet market

• Market share of manufacturers have been equalized.  Market share by local Chinese manufacturers is expected to increase.

4. Surface protection materials market

• Cover glass market
• Glass with TCO (Transparent Conductive Oxide)

5. Spattering target market: A material that is used to create thin films in a technique known as sputter deposition, or thin film deposition.
6. Dye-sensitized solar cell market

• The market is likely to grow to a level of 2.5 billion yen by 2020.
• The market is required to achieve lower costs and quality improvement for wider used

V     Trends and Strategies of Solar Cell Material Manufacturers

TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD
Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
The Dow Chemical Company
KURARAY Co., Ltd.
Lintec Corporation
MA PACKAGING CO.,LTD
KEIWA Incorporated
Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
Soken Chemical & Engineering Co.,Ltd
Toyo Science Corp.,Japan
CHEMICREA Inc.

• Special Survey: Outlook of Stationary ESS (Energy Storage Systems) Market
• It has not yet identified what Stationary ESS should be.
• Market has a potential to achieve grow 1260000kWh in FY2015, and more than nine times of that by FY2020.