South Korean companies to actively promote the well-known mass production of solar batteries
South Korea began to actively promote the well-known manufacturers of mass production of solar batteries. South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries (HyundaiHeavy Industries Co., Ltd.) 2011 annual production scale will be expanded to an annual output of 600MW, 2012 ,and will be expanded to an annual output of 1GW. Including South Korea's Samsung Electronics (Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd.) Plans, including the Samsung Group in 2020 prior to the solar cell business has invested about 420 billion yen, the whole group the size of the total production number of GW modules. The group also recently built in the polycrystalline silicon solar battery production and sales of the internal supply chain.
However, the production scale of South Korean firms and the performance of solar battery modules and the world's top companies still pales in comparison. United States and China have reached an annual output of 1GW of several large-scale manufacturers. Conversion efficiency, Samsung's silicon and thin film silicon hybrid unit is 19%, 18% for silicon-based batteries, thin film CIGS-based unit of compound classes is 11%. Also lower than the level of the world's top 3 to 4 percentage points.