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| Table of Contents |
| Intro and Overview |
| Introduction |
| Company Overview |
| Trends and Forces |
| Key Trends and Forces |
| Competition |
Industry Competitors
- SunPower (SPWR) - One of the fastest growing solar companies, with one of the most efficient cells around.
- Sharp Electronics - The largest photovoltaic cell manufacturer in the world.
- Suntech Power Holdings - A Chinese photovoltaic cell company that is muscling its way into world solar markets.
- JA Solar Holdings, - A Chinese PV company that only sells monocrystalline solar cells; it lets its customers take care of building the modules and systems.
- Solarfun Power Holdings - Another Chinese PV company that operates 90% in Europe and makes most of its money by selling modules, rather than individual cells.
- Evergreen Solar - A solar company that produces string ribbon PV cells and operates at all production levels from silicon wafer to power system.
- Kyocera - A Japanese electronics company that is also a major manufacturer of solar cells.
- Q-Cells - A privately owned, German solar manufacturer.
- BP, Mitsubishi, and Sanyo - Not primarily photovoltaic cell manufacturers, but heavy market competitors nonetheless.
- EMCORE - A Concentrated Photovoltaic System manufacturer that uses Gallium arsenide PV cells and got its start in the solar business making power cells for satellites.
- Energy Conversion Devices - This company uses amorphous thin-film silicon in its ultra-thin, albeit low-efficiency solar cells.
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