Review on recent trend of solar photovoltaic technology

Gul, Mehreen; Kotak, Yash; Muneer, Tariq

Abstract

Solar photovoltaic technology is one of the renewable technologies, which has a potential to shape a clean, reliable, scalable and affordable electricity system for the future. This article provides a comprehensive review of solar photovoltaic technology in terms of photovoltaic materials efficiency and globally leading countries. Based on past years review and photovoltaic installations in the year 2014, the major five leading countries identified are China, Japan, USA, Germany and UK. These five countries altogether accounted for 80% of photovoltaic installations in 2014. The article also discusses the driving policies, funding and Research and Development activities: to gauge the reasons behind the success of the leading countries. Finally, this article reviews the photovoltaic cost analysis in terms of the photovoltaic module cost, balance of system cost and project cost with the help of listed 98 globally installed projects.

Citation

Gul, M., Kotak, Y., & Muneer, T. (2016). Review on recent trend of solar photovoltaic technology. Energy Exploration and Exploitation, 34(4), 485-526. https://doi.org/10.1177/0144598716650552

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: May 19, 2016
• Online Publication Date: May 19, 2016
• Publication Date: 2016-07
• Deposit Date: May 20, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 20, 2016
• Print ISSN: 0144-5987
• Electronic ISSN: 2048-4054
• Publisher: Multi-Science Publishing
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 34
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 485-526
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0144598716650552
• Keywords: Photovoltaic materials, photovoltaic efficiency, research and development activities, photovoltaic policy
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/10253
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0144598716650552