The International Energy Administration (IEA) has released its 2004 statistics on Solar PV. The 19 developed countries that participated in their survey installed an additional 770,270 kW of solar power, a 30% increase over 2003, bringing the total to 2,595,545 kW at the end of 2004.
Japan leads with 1,131,991 kW, followed by Germany with 794,000 kW and the U.S. with 365,000 kW. On a per capita basis Germany leads with 9.62 watts/person with Japan at 8.87 and Switzerland with 3.12. The U.S. was far behind with 1.24 watts/person.
A table with all of the data for developed countries can be found here.
A website Tends in photovoltaic applications in selected IEA countries between 1992 and 2004, provides access to the complete report and to the various sections. The sub-section Total photovoltaic power installed in IEA PVPS countries is probably the most interesting. Their is also a section on the photovoltaic industry, with the sub-section Producers of semi-finished and finished PV products, i.e. PV cells and modules probably the the most interesting. There are also sub-sections on silicon producers and balance of system components. Finally economic issues are addressed in sections on System prices and Economic benefits.
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Posted by: odograph | December 22, 2005 at 09:31 PM
Hi,
Please take a look at some of these solar calculators.They are quite interesting as they are based on the NASA data.I read your stuff regularly and thought people here may be interested in having a look at this one.
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Thanks
Pranay
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