Photovoltaics at Multi-Terawatt Scale: Waiting is Not an Option

Nancy Haegel; Pierre Verlinden; Marta Victoria; Pietro Altermatt; Harry Atwater; Teresa Barnes; Christian Breyer; Chris Case; Stefaan De Wolf; Chris Deline; Marwan Dharmrin; Bernhard Dimmler; Gunter Erfurt; Markus Gloeckler; Jan Goldschmidt; Brett Hallam; Sophia Haussener; Burkhard Holder; Ulrich Jaeger; Arnulf Jaeger-Waldau; Izumi Kaizuka; Hiroshi Kikusato; Benjamin Kroposki; Sarah Kurtz; Koji Matsubara; Stefan Nowak; Kazuhiko Ogimoto; Christian Peter; I. Peters; Simon Philipps; Michael Powalla; Uwe Rau; Thomas Reindl; Maria Roumpani; Keiichiro Sakurai; Christian Schorn; Peter Schossig; Rutger Schlatmann; Abdelilah Slaoui; Ron Sinton; Brittany Smith; Peter Schneidewind; B. Stanbery; Marko Topic; William Tumas; Juzer Vasi; Matthias Vetter; Eicke Weber; Arthur Weeber; Anke Weidlich; Dirk Weiss; Andreas Bett

doi:10.1126/science.adf6957

Photovoltaics at Multi-Terawatt Scale: Waiting is Not an Option

Nancy Haegel
, Pierre Verlinden
, Marta Victoria
, Pietro Altermatt
, Harry Atwater
, Teresa Barnes
, Christian Breyer
, Chris Case
, Stefaan De Wolf
, Chris Deline
, Marwan Dharmrin
, Bernhard Dimmler
, Gunter Erfurt
, Markus Gloeckler
, Jan Goldschmidt
, Brett Hallam
, Sophia Haussener
, Burkhard Holder
, Ulrich Jaeger
, Arnulf Jaeger-Waldau

Izumi Kaizuka, Hiroshi Kikusato, Benjamin Kroposki, Sarah Kurtz, Koji Matsubara, Stefan Nowak, Kazuhiko Ogimoto, Christian Peter, I. Peters, Simon Philipps, Michael Powalla, Uwe Rau, Thomas Reindl, Maria Roumpani, Keiichiro Sakurai, Christian Schorn, Peter Schossig, Rutger Schlatmann, Abdelilah Slaoui, Ron Sinton, Brittany Smith, Peter Schneidewind, B. Stanbery, Marko Topic, William Tumas, Juzer Vasi, Matthias Vetter, Eicke Weber, Arthur Weeber, Anke Weidlich, Dirk Weiss, Andreas Bett

Trina Solar
UNSW Australia
Amrock Pty Ltd.
Yangtze Institute for Solar Technology
Aarhus University
Novo Nordisk Foundation
California Institute of Technology
Lappeenranta University of Technology
Oxford Photovoltaics
King Abdullah University of Science & Technology
Osaka University
Nippon Light Metal Holdings Company
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Meyer Burger
First Solar
University of Marburg
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
VDE Renewables
RENA Technologies
European Commission
RTS Corporation
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology
University of California Merced
NET Nowak Energie & Technologie
The University of Tokyo
Solarlab Aiko Europe
Forschungszentrum Julich
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems
Zentrum fur Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Wurttemberg
National University of Singapore
Strategen
EnBW Energie Baden-Wurttemberg
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
French National Centre for Scientific Research
Sinton Consulting
Colorado School of Mines
University of Ljubljana
Indian Institute of Technology (BHU)
University of California at Berkeley
Delft University of Technology
TNO
University of Freiburg

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Abstract

Photovoltaics (PV), while still a small part of global electricity generation, has demonstrated a remarkable track record of of growth and cost reduction, becoming the most cost effective and sustainable source of electricity in a growing number of locations worldwide. This article, the outcome of a recent gathering of PV experts at the 3rd Multi-Terawatt Workshop, addresses future global energy and electricity demand, anticipating high electrification and economic global development, recent progress in PV integration, and assesses how coupling in innovation, PV deployment, storage and sector coupling have and will continue to dramatically cahnge and accelerate the PV landscape if technology, system integration and policy align. A sustained global growth rate of PV of 25% over the next decade would enable a viable path to 2050 greenhouse gas mitigation targets.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	39-42
Number of pages	4
Journal	Science
Volume	380
Issue number	6640
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adf6957
State	Published - 2023

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photovoltaics
PV manufacturing
terawatt

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Haegel, N., Verlinden, P., Victoria, M., Altermatt, P., Atwater, H., Barnes, T., Breyer, C., Case, C., De Wolf, S., Deline, C., Dharmrin, M., Dimmler, B., Erfurt, G., Gloeckler, M., Goldschmidt, J., Hallam, B., Haussener, S., Holder, B., Jaeger, U., ... Bett, A. (2023). Photovoltaics at Multi-Terawatt Scale: Waiting is Not an Option. Science, 380(6640), 39-42. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adf6957

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