Terawatt-Scale Photovoltaics: Trajectories and Challenges

Nancy Haegel; David Feldman; Benjamin Kroposki; Robert Margolis; William Tumas; Michael Woodhouse; Sarah Kurtz; Tonio Buonassisi; Armin Frotzheim; Raffi Garabedian; Martin Green; Stefan Glunz; Hans-Martin Henning; Burkhard Holder; Izumi Kaizuka; Koji Matshubara; Shigeru Niki; Keiichiro Sakurai; Roland Schindler; Eicke Weber; Gregory Wilson

doi:10.1126/science.aal1288

Terawatt-Scale Photovoltaics: Trajectories and Challenges

Nancy Haegel
, David Feldman
, Benjamin Kroposki
, Robert Margolis
, William Tumas
, Michael Woodhouse
, Sarah Kurtz
, Tonio Buonassisi
, Armin Frotzheim
, Raffi Garabedian
, Martin Green
, Stefan Glunz
, Hans-Martin Henning
, Burkhard Holder
, Izumi Kaizuka
, Koji Matshubara
, Shigeru Niki
, Keiichiro Sakurai
, Roland Schindler
, Eicke Weber

Gregory Wilson

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
SolarWorld
First Solar
UNSW Australia
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems
VDE Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies
RTS Corporation
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology

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Abstract

The annual potential of solar energy far exceeds the world's total energy consumption. However, the vision of photovoltaics (PVs) providing a substantial fraction of global electricity generation and total energy demand is far from being realized. What technical, infrastructure, economic, and policy barriers need to be overcome for PVs to grow to the multiple terawatt (TW) scale? We assess realistic future scenarios and make suggestions for a global agenda to move toward PVs at a multi-TW scale.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	141-143
Number of pages	3
Journal	Science
Volume	356
Issue number	6334
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aal1288 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aal1288
State	Published - 14 Apr 2017

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NREL/JA-5K00-66779

Keywords

challenges
complementary technologies
COP-21
GA-SERI
international collaboration
photovoltaics
R&D
terawatt scale

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Haegel, N., Feldman, D., Kroposki, B., Margolis, R., Tumas, W., Woodhouse, M., Kurtz, S., Buonassisi, T., Frotzheim, A., Garabedian, R., Green, M., Glunz, S., Henning, H.-M., Holder, B., Kaizuka, I., Matshubara, K., Niki, S., Sakurai, K., Schindler, R., ... Wilson, G. (2017). Terawatt-Scale Photovoltaics: Trajectories and Challenges. Science, 356(6334), 141-143. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aal1288, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aal1288

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