A National Photovoltaic Industry Assessment for the Usa: Needs, Corporate Structure and Building Blocks

The semiconductor industry is often used as a template for gauging progress and to provide a guide for development of both manufacturing and business models for crystalline silicon-based photovoltaic (PV) technology, which currently comprise over 85% of the PV industry. We offer insight into how the US can leverage existing semiconductor industry organizational knowledge and manufacturing infrastructure and propose a process for bootstrapping applicable elements which could help this dominant segment of the US PV Industry to recover its leadership position in the global marketplace.