Just before one year the silicion, the raw material that is used to produce solar panels was not enough to demand. This enabled many venture capital to be allocated to the financing of alternative solar technology. Thin-layered photovoltaic panels became very hot topic.

But now the picture is changed. Investors are expected to be very chary of innovative companies and to invest money in projects that are much closer to marketing, according to the report of Lux Research, published a few days ago.

The report details the state of the market before the collapse of the last quarter of 2008 and forecasts which companies in the sector will be separated from the bottom and when it can be expected to happen.

According to Lux Research analysts of the market for solar products will fall from 36 billion dollars in 2008 to 29 billion in 2009. But here is another very important value – in 2008 against that amount gw 5.5 installed capacity, while in 2009 will be installed gw 5.3, ie these values reflect very telling sharp drop in the price for installation of 1 watts power.
In 2013 can expect growth of sales of solar products to 70 billion dollars and an installed capacity of 18.5 gw.

Some of the smaller players in the market will probably come out of the game, but it will open space for the competing companies to grow. Competition will only make better ones that will survive in the sector.

One of the technologies that will continue to evolve and attract investment CIGS / copper indium gallium selenide /, which will increase revenues by 321 million for 2009 to 950 million in 2013, although many companies do not wait this time. Division of Q-Cells-Solibro and division of Solon-Global Solar in all likelihood, will be among the survivors because of strong support that they have.

Companies like First Solar is also likely to experience difficult times, because despite the serious decline in prices of traditional fotovoltaitsi they remain competitive as the price of your product.

Prices of wholesale panels have decreased over the last 6 months of 3.80 dollars per watts to 2.50 – 3.10 dollars per watts. A difficult applications running at the time almost all photovoltaic manufacturers – conventional and thin layered have done a large amount of storage modules. For companies like Suntech Power, Gintech Energy, Motech Industrial those levels reached up to 100 MW.

When producers of crystal photovoltaics according to Lux Research in the best financial condition were Sharp Electronics, Suntech and Q-Cells, which makes them even more attractive business partners for potential clients. But companies such as ET Solar and Yingli will need to set additional discounts to get customers to ignore the fact that there is risk, trust is either approved suppliers.