Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Handy table of Top 20 Photovoltaic Manufacturers
While doing some research recently on solar cell manufacturers, I contacted Dr. Henning Wicht, senior director and principal analyst for photovoltaics and MEMS at iSuppli. He shared the following table with me, which ranks photovoltaic suppliers by manufacturing volume as well as noting the type of cells: Crystalline or thin-film. Any manufacturer that has a [1] under "Cell technology" also manufacturers thin-film, although crystalline is its primary technology
Interesting to note that in spite of the subsidies and overall emphasis given by some Asian and European governments, US-based First Solar is ranked fourth, and apparently is ranked first in the rapidly growing thin-film segment. (First Solar is supplying much of the rooftop panels to SC Edison for their huge 800 MW rooftop solar retrofit project.)
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Company |
CountryOf |
Cell |
Capacity 2008 (announced) |
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Sharp Electronics |
Japan |
Crystalline[1] |
870 |
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Q-Cells |
Germany |
Crystalline[1] |
834 |
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Suntech Power Holdings Ltd. |
China |
Crystalline[1] |
590 |
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First Solar |
USA |
Thin-film |
484 |
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SolarWorld |
Germany |
Crystalline |
460 |
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Sanyo |
Japan |
Crystalline |
365 |
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BP Solar |
UK |
Crystalline |
480 |
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Kyocera |
Japan |
Crystalline |
300 |
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Motech Industries Inc. |
Taiwan |
Crystalline |
330 |
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Solarfun Power Holdings |
China |
Crystalline |
360 |
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SunPower Corp. |
USA |
Crystalline |
414 |
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Gintech Energy Corporation |
Taiwan |
Crystalline |
300 |
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E-TON SOLAR TECH |
Taiwan |
Crystalline |
320 |
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Yingli Green Energy |
China |
Crystalline |
400 |
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CEEG Nanjing PV Tech Co.Ltd. |
China |
Crystalline |
390 |
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China Sunergy Co. Ltd |
China |
Crystalline |
320 |
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Mitsubishi |
Japan |
Crystalline[1] |
280 |
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Ersol Solar Energy AG |
Germany |
Crystalline |
220 |
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Jing Ao Solar Co Ltd. |
China |
Crystalline |
175 |
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Moser Baer Photovoltaic |
India |
Crystalline[1] |
120 |
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Total (in MW) |
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8012 |
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Total for Top 10 |
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5073 |
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