Environmental Technologies and Eco-innovation in the Czech ...
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FIG. 1 | The <strong>in</strong>stalled capacity of PVS connected to <strong>the</strong> ma<strong>in</strong>s [MWp] <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> number of licences granted<br />
by <strong>the</strong> Energy Regulatory Office <strong>in</strong> <strong>Czech</strong> regions as of 31 December 2008<br />
The number of awarded licences<br />
Installed capacity (MWp)<br />
0.127–0.433<br />
0.434–1.454<br />
1.455–2.145<br />
2.146–5.292<br />
5.293–17.377<br />
SOURCE | Energy Regulatory Office<br />
5.1.1 | <strong>Technologies</strong> us<strong>in</strong>g crystall<strong>in</strong>e silica<br />
An abrupt growth <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> use of photovoltaics throughout <strong>the</strong> world can be<br />
seen by <strong>the</strong> amount of crystall<strong>in</strong>e silica solar panels be<strong>in</strong>g produced. This shows<br />
this technology is still dom<strong>in</strong>ant. The first crystall<strong>in</strong>e silica solar cells <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Czech</strong><br />
Republic were developed <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Czech</strong> Technical University laboratories <strong>in</strong> Prague<br />
<strong>and</strong> semi-<strong>in</strong>dustrially produced by Tesla Vrchlabí. Dur<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> end of <strong>the</strong> last decade,<br />
research <strong>and</strong> development was also conducted at <strong>the</strong> former Tesla Seznam <strong>in</strong> Rožnov<br />
pod Radhoštěm. Based on this successful development, Solartec s.r.o. was established<br />
<strong>in</strong> 1993. It deals with <strong>the</strong> research, development <strong>and</strong> production of solar cells.<br />
Currently, research <strong>and</strong> development is aimed at those process<strong>in</strong>g technologies<br />
that show great potential <strong>and</strong> have a special <strong>and</strong> highly efficient structure for solar<br />
cells. The properties of characteristic methods have been studied <strong>and</strong> optimised<br />
<strong>in</strong> order to analyze <strong>the</strong> materials <strong>and</strong> structures <strong>in</strong> crystall<strong>in</strong>e silica solar cells <strong>in</strong>