Price allocation guidelines January 1980: Low-cost solar array project
The price allocation guidelines (PAG) are an integrated set of specific cost targets for several task areas within the Low-cost Solar Array (LSA) Project. PAG is a working tool of LSA Project management designed to provide consistent and meaningful guidelines for costs of polycrystalline silicon material, sheet, cells, encapsulants, and module manufacturing. It is expected that advanced photovoltaic concepts derived from industry and the research community can be developed so that it will be possible by the end of 1982 to demonstrate production processes, all process steps, and prototype equipment required to manufacture flat-plate photovoltaic modules. This demonstration would incorporate production rates and product quality consistent with a specific market price determined by the program. This stage of development has been referred to as Technical Readiness. A goal of $0.70 per peak watt (1980 dollars) has been established for the cost of electricity generated by photovoltaic modules. The processes for producing modules demonstrated to be technically ready must be amenable to scale-up so that this price goal can eventually be achieved in the marketplace. The guidelines described in this document allocate portions of that goal to each module component. Sheet materials derived from the following five technologies are considered: Czochralski, heat exchanger method (HEM), edge-defined film growth (EFG), dendritic web, and silicon on ceramic (SOC). Each type of material provides a unique combination of projected silicon yield, cell efficiency, and module packing efficiency. Also included are tables describing actual inflation rates from 1975 to 1979, and projected inflation rate to mid-1980. Project goals are now expressed in 1980 dollars rather than 1975 dollars, and these tables enable conversion of dollar amounts from prior years (1974 to 1980) to their 1980 or 1975 equivalents.
- Research Organization:
- California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Jet Propulsion Lab. (JPL)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AI01-76ET20356
- OSTI ID:
- 5232778
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/JPL-1012-47
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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