NanoMarkets
today announced the release of its latest report on the organic
photovoltaics market (OPV) titled, “Opportunities in the Organic
Photovoltaics Market - 2012.”
Glen
Allen, Virginia - May 9, 2012 -- NanoMarkets
today announced the release of its latest report on the organic
photovoltaics market (OPV) titled, “Opportunities in the Organic
Photovoltaics Market - 2012.” In the report the industry is facing
a make or break scenario within the next two years if it hopes to
capitalize on an opportunity that could be worth over $700 million
($US) by 2019.
Additional
details about the report are available at:
http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/opportunities_in_the_organic_photovoltaics_market_2012
The
firm recently released a report on the dye sensitized cell PV market
in late April of this year. Details of that report are available at:
http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/dye_sensitized_cell_markets_2012
About
the Report:
This
report is designed to help both materials and panel/product
manufacturers identify the available opportunities for generating
revenue from OPV. It includes detailed eight-year forecasts for
volumes, in power output and/or area terms and revenues, resulting
from sales both of the materials used to manufacture OPV modules, as
well as the revenues from sales of the OPV modules themselves. The
OPV materials forecasts are broken out by material type - donors,
acceptors, HTLs/EBLs, electrodes, substrates, and encapsulation
technologies - and the OPV modules forecasts broken out by PV
application - portable charging, embedded electronics, BIPV/BAPV,
AIPV, and so on.
The
report also contains a discussion of some of the key players in the
DSC marketplace, including Konarka, Heliatek, Solarmer, New Energy
Technologies, BASF, Agfa, IMEC, Solvay, Global Photonic Energy,
Solarpress, Eight19, Mitsubishi, Polyera, Heraeus, Merck, and others.
From
the Report:
The
OPV market continues to struggle to get off the ground. The last year
has produced a few bright spots - some new investments, some modest
performance enhancements, additional demonstration and/or niche
product launches, etc. - but the industry still needs a big
breakthrough, or at least a clear path toward a larger-area or
larger-scale application that can take OPV to the next level
commercially.
The
value propositions that have been claimed for OPV continue to get
harder and harder to make: efficiencies are still very low in
commercial products, costs are still very high, flexible
encapsulation is still a problem, and a big market pull for portable,
small-scale charging has not materialized. Meanwhile, development and
commercialization of OPV’s closest “third generation”
competitor, DSC PV, has outpaced that of OPV, especially in the
larger-area BIPV and other grid-connected sectors. BIPV and related
applications are important because they offer large enough volumes
for OPV to break out commercially, recover the already-sunk
investment costs, enable cost-reducing economies of scale, and
establish long-term viability for the OPV industry.
NanoMarkets
thinks that time for OPV may be running out. OPV firms must now move
quickly or get left behind in these larger markets. We believe that
the next two years will be the years in which OPV must finally prove
itself in the PV market, both from a technical and cost perspective,
or be relegated to permanent “specialty” status and an
addressable market of no more than a few megawatts (MW) at best.
About
NanoMarkets:
NanoMarkets
tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy,
electronics and other markets created by developments in advanced
materials. The firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and
forecasts of this kind and has been covering the photovoltaics sector
for more than six years.
Visit
http://www.nanomarkets.net
for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.
Media
Contact:
Robert
Nolan
NanoMarkets,
LC
PO
BOX 3840
Glen
Allen, VA 23058
804-270-1718
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