At SNEC 2024 in Shanghai, pv journal spoke to Puzant Baliozian, main marketing consultant within the photovoltaic tools sector group for the Machinery and Equipment Manufacturers Association (VDMA) in Germany. He says tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) know-how will dominate the photo voltaic market within the subsequent 10 years and expects module producers to compete to create extra artistic product designs. He additionally believes that copper metallization will acquire market share in heterojunction (HJT) module manufacturing within the subsequent few years. “In the approaching decade, we could have lower than mg/W of silver used for TOPCon and HJT applied sciences,” he stated.