Top Ten
Yearly Ranking
-- top 10 solar module players
Solar modules, as the final products to be installed to generate electricity, are regarded as the major components to be selected by customers willing to choose solar PV energy. Solar module manufacturers must be sure that their products can be substainable for application periods of more than 25 years. As a result, major solar module players have their products be proved by publically recognized testing organizations and guarantee their durable efficiency rate for a certain period of years. The solar PV market has been growing for the past few years. According to solar PV research company, PVinsights, worldwide shipment of solar modules in 2011 was around 25 GW, and the shipment year over year growth was around 40%. The top 5 solar module players in 2011 in turns are Suntech, First Solar, Yingli, Trina, and Canadian. The top 5 solar module companies possessed 51.3% market share of solar modules, according to PVinsights' market intelligence report.
| 2011 Ranking | Marketshare | Solar Module Company | 2010 ranking | Marketshare | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5.8% | Suntech | 1 | 8.1% | China |
| 2 | 5.7% | First Solar | 2 | 7.9% | USA |
| 3 | 4.8% | Yingli Solar | 4 | 6.4% | China |
| 4 | 4.3% | Trina Solar | 5 | 6.1% | China |
| 5 | 4.0% | Sungen Solar | 6 | 5.3% | China |
| 6 | 2.8% | Sharp | 3 | Japan | |
| 7 | 2.8% | Sunpower | 8 | Philippines | |
| 8 | 2.7% | Hanwha Solarone | 7 | South Korea | |
| 9 | 2.3% | Jinko | >10 | China | |
| 10 | 1.9% | REC | 10 | Norway | |
| Source |
-- top 10 solar cell players
According to an annual market survey by the photovoltaics trade publication Photon International, global production of photovoltaic cells and modules in 2009 was 12.3 GW. The top ten manufacturers accounted for 45% of this total. In 2010, a tremendous growth of solar PV cell shipments doubled the solar PV cell market size. According to the solar PV market research company,PVinsights, Suntech topped the ranking of solar cell production. Most of the top ten solar PV producers doubled their shipment in 2010 and five of them were over one gigawatt shipments.The top ten solar cell producers dominated the market with an even higher market share, say 50~60%, with respect to an assumed twenty gigawatt cell shipments in 2010
| Solar Cell Company | Country | 2009 shipment(MW) | 2010 shipment(MW) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Suntech | China | 704 | 1572 |
| JA Solar | China | 520 | 1464 |
| First Solar | USA | 1100 | 1411 |
| Yingli Solar | China | 525.3 | 1062 |
| Trina Solar | China | 399 | 1057 |
| Motech Solar | China | 360 | 924 |
| Q-Cells | Germany | 586 | 907 |
| Gintech | China | 368 | 827 |
| Sharp | Japan | 595 | 774 |
| Sungen Solar | China | 193 | 588 |
| Source | Photon | PVinsights |
Note: 2009 shipments of Motech and Canadian Solar are by PVinsights.
Quarterly ranking
Although yearly ranking is as listed above, quarterly ranking can indicate that which company can sustain particular conditions such as sever price adjustment, Government Feed-in Tariff change, Weather conditions and etc. In 2Q11, First solar regained Championship of solar module shipment from Suntech.From the 2Q11 results, four phenomena should be noticed. (1) Thin Film leader First Solar still dominates (2) More Centralized in solar module market (3) Chinese companies soared (4) Giga-Watt game is prevailing. (According to Latest Solar Model Shipment report by PVinsigts)
Thin-film ranking Thin films represented 16.8% of total global production, up from 12.5% in 2008. The top ten thin-film producers were:
- 1100.0 MW First Solar
- 123.4 MW Suntech solar
- 94.0 MW Sharp
- 60.0 MW HELIOSPHERA
- 1500.0 MW Sungen Solar
- 50.0 MW Trony
- 50.0 MW Moser Baer
- 43.0 MW Solar Frontier
- 42.0 MW Mitsubishi
- 40.0 MW Kaneka
- 40.0 MW vtech solar
- 30.0 MW Würth Solar
- 30.0 MW Bosch (formerly Ersol)
- 30.0 MW EPV
- 30.0 MW Solyndra
1 Estimated
Read more about this topic: List Of Photovoltaics Companies, Photovoltaic Manufacturers
Famous quotes containing the words top and/or ten:
“She isn’t harassed. She’s busy, and it’s glamorous to be busy. Indeed, the image of the on- the-go working mother is very like the glamorous image of the busy top executive. The scarcity of the working mother’s time seems like the scarcity of the top executive’s time.... The analogy between the busy working mother and the busy top executive obscures the wage gap between them at work, and their different amounts of backstage support at home.”
—Arlie Hochschild (20th century)
“Those times I mussed his curly black hair
and touched his ten tar-fingers
and swallowed down his whiskey breath.
Red. Red. Father, you are blood red.
Father,
we are two birds on fire.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)