With the increase the environmental awareness, the solar cell plant investment become strong. French research company Yole Developpement (hereinafter referred to as Yole) that is expected in 2012 the global solar cell production capacity will reach 33.75GW. This is equivalent to the size of production capacity in 2007 to about 4.7 times.

Yole is updated quarterly global solar cell plant database, this time, the company's statistics in October 2008 after the release of the report issued by the "PV Fab Database 2008 IV version of the Japanese."

PV Fab Database 2008 IV data show that in 2008 solar cell production capacity will increase 83.3 percent last year, reaching 13.18GW, 2009 years than the previous year increased 53.6 percent to 20.25GW. Value for the above-mentioned capacity needs more than 2 times. Nevertheless, the solar cell maker plans to remain active in new capacity, can be seen on the solar cell market expectations of big.

If the production capacity of solar cells from different parts of the point of view, the higher the rate of Asia. 2007 global production capacity accounted for 64% of the total, although after the market share decline, it is expected that by 2012 will remain at 60%.