According to the statistics, Dataquest 136 countries around the world were put to popularize and apply the upsurge of solar cells, including 95 countries are on a large scale of solar cell production, actively develop new products of various energy. In 1998, the world’s production of solar battery, the total capacity of 1,000 mw, 1999 amounted to 2,850 mw. In 2000, the world has nearly 4600 manufacturers to provide the market with test and test for the power of the product.
At present, many countries are formulating medium-term development plan, the preparation of solar energy in the large-scale development in the 21st century, the department of the state is introduced, Japan launched photovoltaic plan is sunshine plan. America’s national NREL photovoltaic plan is an important photovoltaic plan, the content of silicon and advanced in technology, components, thin film solar pv modules, and PVMaT system performance and engineering, the pv-tech application and market development of five areas of research work.
America also launched a “solar street lamps, aiming to make America plan” part of the city street is changed by the solar power, according to the plan, the street lamp every year electricity-saving 800 degrees. Japan is also seven million sets of solar energy “project”, Japan to popularize the solar power system, is mainly residential housing installed in the roof solar power generation equipment, with the rest of the family could also sell electric power company. A standard families can install a generation of 3000. Europe is research and development of solar battery on the famous “eureka” high-tech plan, launched “10 million sets of project”. The popularization and application of the main content of test for solar energy engineering “, “planning is now promoting the development of large industrial solar test is one of the important power.
Japan, South Korea and the European region in eight countries recently decided to cooperate in Asia and Africa, inland desert regions to build the world’s largest solar power stations, their goal is the land area of approximately 1/4 of the desert regions of rizhao resources for a long time, make effective use of 30 million users to provide 100 megawatts of electricity. Plan will since 2001, spend four years to finish.
At present, the United States and Japan in the world market photovoltaic maximum market share. America has the world’s biggest photovoltaic power plant, the power to 7MW, Japan also built 1MW of photovoltaic power generating power. A total of 23 around eight (pv) power equipment, Israel, Australia, New Zealand ahead.
Since the 1990s, the global solar cell industry annually to 15% increase continuously development. According to the latest figures released Dataquest prediction and report, the United States, Japan and western industrialized countries in the research and development of solar energy, 1998, the total investment of $5.7 billion, 1999 1127 billion dollars, 7 billion dollars in 2000, In 2001, will reach $8.2 billion, In 2002, is expected to exceed 10 million dollars.
Solar cell industry status
In the research and development of solar cells work seriously, fences, in early period of amorphous silicon semiconductor research work has been listed in the national major issue, Eighth and ninth in the research and development, the emphasis on large solar battery, etc. October 2003, the national development and reform commission, the ministry of science and technology for the next five years, the solar energy resources development planning commission “light engineering” will raise 100 billion yuan in advance, the application of solar power generation technology plan to 2005 national solar power system with a total installed capacity of 300 mw.
In 2002, the national related ministries launched “western provinces without electricity plans”, through the village of solar and wind power solutions seven small western provinces without electricity the power of the village. This project startup greatly stimulate the solar industry, domestic built a few solar battery, the packaging line of solar cell production increase quickly. China currently has 10 solar cell production line, the annual production capacity of about 4.5 MW, including eight line imported from abroad, in which 8 production lines, with 6 monocrystalline silicon solar cell production line of amorphous silicon solar cell production line. According to experts, at present our pv market demand for the year 2001-2010 5MW in demand, will start from 2011 10MW and market demand, China will be greater than in photovoltaic 20MW.
At present domestic solar silicon production enterprise mainly luoyang monocrystalline silicon base NingJin hebei factory, sichuan and semiconductor manufacturers, including hebei factory NingJin monocrystalline silicon base is the world’s largest production base, the solar monocrystalline silicon solar energy accounted for the world market share of around 25%.
In the solar battery materials market, the current domestic downstream of the enterprise mainly producing solar cells have baoding yingli new energy, suntech, kaifeng solar cell factory, yunnan semiconductor devices, qinhuangdao colorful optoelectronic, zhejiang like solar power, solar energy, ningbo kyocera (tianjin) solar energy company, total output in 120MW above.
Solar battery and solar power editrice prospects
At present, the application of solar cells from military and aerospace field into the industrial, commercial, agriculture, communication, household appliances and utilities sectors, especially in the remote areas can be scattered, mountains, deserts, island and rural use to save cost, the transmission lines are very expensive. But in the present stage, it costs are high, 1kW electricity needs a large investment of thousands of dollars, so use are still on the economy.
But, in the long run, as solar battery manufacture technology improvement and the new light — the electric switching device, the invention of the protection of the environment and the huge demand for renewable clean energy, solar battery will still be using solar radiation is feasible method for large-scale use solar energy future human opens wide prospect.

Massey university in Ontario engineers, recently completed a flexible solar panels prototype development. This kind of solar panels can be installed in any roof, including the bus stop car radian design etc.

The size of each flexible solar panels to power, but 12cm 90cm x 450 watts. Solar panels can provide for the bus stop for auto electric saw, generally speaking, a panel of power can drive 600 HaoWa power energy-saving bulb or small night lights all night, sufficient to satisfy customer needs and lighting.

Solar panels in daytime capture sunshine and translated into energy storage, and night driving lighting equipment. Researchers say the roof houses in installation of solar panels, can satisfy the need. Powered night

Researchers say the storage battery, solar battery climate and weather effects, such as winter, cloudy, snow and other effects will be the accumulation of solar battery power. The researchers also are looking for the prototype into commercial technology laboratory.