What is a photovoltaic power station?

A photovoltaic power station, also known as a solar park, solar farm, or solar power plant, is a large-scale grid-connected photovoltaic power system (PV system) designed for the supply of merchant power.

How many PV solar installations are there in the world?

The resulting dataset expands the previous publicly available facility-level data for PV solar energy by 432% (in number of facilities), including 18,449 new installations in China, 9,906 in Japan, 4,525 in the United States, 2,021 in India and 17,918 in the European Economic Area.

Which countries use photovoltaic power stations?

The USA, [ 12] China, [ 13] India, [ 14] France, [ 15] Canada, [ 16] Australia, [ 17] and Italy, [ 18] among others, have also become major markets as shown on the list of photovoltaic power stations .

How are photovoltaic absorbers made?

The manufacturing typically starts with float glass coated with a transparent conductive layer, onto which the photovoltaic absorber material is deposited in a process called close-spaced sublimation. Laser scribing is used to pattern cell strips and to form an interconnect pathway between adjacent cells.

What is the share of glass-glass modules in photovoltaic?

According to the International Technology Roadmap for Photovoltaic (ITRPV), in 2018 the share of glass-glass modules was only 5% and is expected to just double by 2020.