Thin-film PV to approach 10 GW by 2012

CAMBRIDGE, USA: Greentech Media Inc., an industry-leading online media company covering green technology news and analysis, and the Prometheus Institute for Sustainable Development, a non-profit devoted to furthering the advancement of alternative energy and sustainable development, announced the availability of Thin-Film PV 2.0: Market Outlook Through 2012, the most comprehensive research report to-date on the explosive thin-film market.

In the first half of 2008 alone, over $200 million in venture capital was poured into the thin-film market, adding to the total of nearly $1 billion invested in the market since 2007. The report estimates that by 2012, thin-film could make up over 40 percent of worldwide PV production.

"Thin-film PV has quickly become one of the most heated market segments in all of renewable energy," said Travis Bradford, Executive Director of the Prometheus Institute. "The report provides an excellent resource for companies that want a complete understanding of the thin-film market today and going forward."

The 113-page report, complete with 80 tables, charts and graphs, builds on exclusive primary research and survey data from 137 companies in the PV supply chain.