Panel soiling is a major concern for the solar or photovoltaic industry. Solar panels located in dry soiling environments accumulate dirt, which can be a major drain on efficiency, limiting power output, and driving up cleaning and maintenance costs.
Reducing the dirt accumulation tendencies of panels is a key objective of the anti-soiling coating. Anti-soiling coating ensures PV panels can be easily cleaned.
Anti-soiling coating enables easier and faster cleaning of each module and reduces the use of water and other consumables. Anti-soiling coating enables less frequent cleaning cycles, saving operators’ time, and reducing the cost of consumables. Anti-soiling coating for solar glass is combination of both anti-reflective properties and anti-soiling properties. This helps maintain maximum power output for longer duration, thereby reducing cleaning costs.
Increasing demand for electricity in developing countries is expected to drive the solar panels markets. Anti-soiling coating is used to protect the solar panels from the dirt accumulation. Thus the solar panel industry is likely to boost the anti-soiling coating market.
Increase in competitiveness of solar photovoltaic and government initiatives and programs, owing to increased demand for electricity, is likely to boost the solar panels market, which in turn is projected to drive anti-soiling coating market.
Countries shifting toward solar photovoltaic (PV) in order to alleviating pollution and CO2 emissions is projected to boost the anti-soiling market.
Developing countries, such as India and China, are shifting preference toward solar energy generated by PV panels’ response to national feed-in tariff (FIT) payments and other incentives that aid in alleviating chronic power shortages and increase reliability. Rising demand for the PV panels is expected to fuel the anti-soiling coatings market
Renewable and cost-effective forms of energy are gaining wide acceptance over conventional sources of energy. Solar panels do not burn fuel, generate no noise and pollution, and are around two to three times more efficient than combustion technologies. Expansion of the solar photovoltaic panels industry is projected to drive the anti-soiling coating market.
Decline in prices of key raw materials, including silver and polysilicon, and other industrial commodities that are used to make solar panels is expected to drive the market during the forecast period
Rising prices of electricity, globally, coupled with low cost of solar panels, and decreased installation cost of solar panel systems are driving the solar panel market, which in turn is boosting the anti-soiling coating market.
Reliability, overall production, and competitiveness are key factors hampering the adoption of photovoltaic system technology. Climatic conditions and geographic location restrain the solar energy market, especially in snowfall- and rainfall-prone regions. This, in turn, hampers the anti-soiling coating market.
Without a storage device, such as a battery, solar energy efficiency is hampered at night. Furthermore, solar energy generation technologies are expensive.
