Solar Cell Production and Market Implementation in Japan, USA and EU

The search for a substitute for fossil energy sources, the world-wide improving environmental awareness and the needs of the growing population in developing countries have increased the interest in photovoltaics as a long-term, inexhaustable, environmentally friendly and reliable energy technology. In the last five years, the production of photovoltaic cells has increased steadily by an average of 30% pr year, driven not only by the progress in materials and processing technology, but by market introduction programmes in many countries of the world.