Analysis of wholesale sales channels of photovoltaic panels

What is the solar photovoltaics supply chain review?

The Solar Photovoltaics Supply Chain Review explores the global solar photovoltaics (PV) supply chain and opportunities for developing U.S. manufacturing capacity.

What is the supply chain for solar PV?

The supply chain for solar PV has two branches in the United States: crystalline silicon (c-Si) PV, which made up 84% of the U.S. market in 2020, and cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin film PV, which made up the remaining 16%. The supply chain for c-Si PV starts with the refining of high-purity polysilicon.

How has global solar PV manufacturing capacity changed over the last decade?

Global solar PV manufacturing capacity has increasingly moved from Europe, Japan and the United States to China over the last decade. China has invested over USD 50 billion in new PV supply capacity – ten times more than Europe − and created more than 300 000 manufacturing jobs across the solar PV value chain since 2011.

What happens if all PV supply chains are 'rational'?

It is noted that if all the PV supply chains are ‘rational’ (i.e., all PV supply chains adopt a centralized strategy), the HS scenario will degenerate into the pure CS scenario and result in the profit reduction of all PV supply chains comparing to those of the pure DS case. 5.2.

What is a snapshot of global PV markets?

This 11th edition of the “Snapshot of Global PV Markets” aims at providing preliminary information on how the PV market developed in 2022. The 28th edition of the PVPS complete “Trends in Photovoltaic Applications” report will be published in Q4 2023.

How does a decentralized PV supply chain work?

In a decentralized PV supply chain, a module supplier and a PV system assembler make optimal decisions in a Stackelberg way ( von Stackelberg, 1934, Fudenberg and Tirole, 1993, Gibbons, 1992, Osborne and Rubenstein, 1994 ).