Journal
JOULE
Volume 4, Issue 4, Pages 822-839Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2020.01.006
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- European Union [746516]
- Martin Family Society for Fellows of Sustainability
- DOE-NSF ERF for Quantum Energy and Sustainable Solar Technologies (QESST)
- Singapore's National Research Foundation through the Singapore MIT Alliance for Research and Technology's ``Low energy electronic systems (LEES)'' IRG
- Summer UROP grant from Shell-MITei
- Marie Curie Actions (MSCA) [746516] Funding Source: Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)
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The significant capital expense of photovoltaics manufacturing has made it difficult for new cell and module technologies to enter the market. We present two technoeconomic models that analyze the sustainable growth of perovskite manufacturing for an R2R single-junction technology and a perovskite-silicon tandem module, focusing on the impacts of economies of scale and average selling price on profitability. We establish a cost range of $3.30/W to $ 0.53/W for flexible modules manufactured in factory sizes ranging from 0.3 MW/year to 1 GW/year. In addition, we model the cost to manufacture a tandem module consisting of a single- junction perovskite cell stacked in 4-terminal configuration onto a silicon cell and show how an existing manufacturer can grow at a faster rate by co-investing in tandems. Our analyses highlight potential routes to market for perovskite photovoltaics and the possibility to sustainably grow a photovoltaics manufacturing company even inmarkets with higher labor rates.
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