What is Photovoltaics?

Silicon-Wafer based Technology

Market development

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Glossary

Swiss Wafers’ market has been growing fast for many years

The worldwide climate warming, increasing energy demand and fast growing prices for fossil fuels (oil, gas, coal) make it absolutely indispensable to switch to renewable energies in the long run.

In recent years this conclusion leads to a massive increase of electricity production by means of photovoltaic systems, and it forms the basis for the long-term growth of the photovoltaic market.

Annual worldwide production of solar-cells (in MWp)

Source: European Commission, PV Status Report 2006