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Experts Outline Pathway for Generating Up to Ten Terawatts of Power from Sunlight by 2030

Goal of using the sun to provide a significant fraction of global electricity demand is far from being realized.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Scientists from the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), their counterparts from similar institutes in Japan and Germany, along with researchers at universities and industry, assessed the recent trajectory of photovoltaics (PV) and outlined a potential worldwide pathway to produce a significant portion of the world’s electricity from solar power in the new Science paper, Terawatt-Scale Photovoltaics: Trajectories and Challenges.   Fifty-seven experts met in Ge...

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