Photovoltaic IndustryRoadmap

The Photovoltaic Industry Roadmap is a U.S. industry-led effort to help guide domestic photovoltaic research, technology, manufacturing, applications, markets, and policy. The roadmap covers the period of 2000-2020 and represents the direction of the photovoltaic industry, its critical partners, and U.S. government programs

The U.S. Photovoltaic Industry Roadmap is also available in PDF Format (PDF 718KB)

Executive Summary
Introducing the Photovoltaic Industry Roadmap
PV's Value to Customers and the Nation
Photovoltaic Industry Profile
Solar-Electric Vision, Goals, and Targets
Technical, Market, and Institutional Barriers
Commercializing Photovoltaic Solar-Electric Power
PV Roadmap Workshop Participant Lists

Some of the following documents are available as Adobe Acrobat PDFs. Download Adobe Acrobat

Solar Electric Power - The U.S. Photovoltaic Industry Roadmap (PDF 3.36 MB) is the final 36-page document from the road-mapping process.

Two earlier, related documents serve as useful companion pieces to this final roadmap:

The Industry-Developed PV Roadmap - A Framework for U.S. Industry and Technology Leadership. This brief document highlights the industry's vision, strategies, goals, and targets for 2020. (PDF 265 KB)
U.S. Photovoltaics Industry PV Technology Roadmap Workshop, June 23-25, 1999 (PDF 839 KB). This 76-page document covers four critical Technology Development Areas - Markets and Applications, Components, Manufacturing, and Research - and discusses vision and goals, barriers, actions, and timeframes.
For a printed copy of these documents, contact NREL's Document Distribution Service, 303-275-4363.
PV Five-Year Plan
The National Center for Photovoltaics recently published Photovoltaics - Energy for the New Millennium: The National Photovoltaics Program Plan for 2000-2004. The plan outlines the direction the national program will take through 2004.
Single-page layout. (PDF 3.44 MB) This format is easiest to print out on normal, letter-size paper.

Full-spread layout. (PDF 1.96 MB) This format retains the layout of the original document.

For a printed copy of the PV five-year plan, contact NREL's Document Distribution Service, 303-275-4363.

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