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• A clearing-house activity on misinformation and misunder-
standings, such as the energy pay-back time for PV modules
[see Chapter 1, Section 1.5.7] and the capacity credit of PV
power.
• An observatory of industrial development and the activities
of the public research establishments in Europe. In the early
1990s, Europe had the highest density of cell and module
manufacturing. Fourteen large or small companies were
involved in crystalline silicon cells and the whole range of
thin-film cells from amorphous cells and the newly invented
micro-crystalline silicon to CdTe, CdSe and CIS.
At the EU Commission, we put