Why cheaper solar photovoltaics are key to addressing climate change

June 2021

In late 2007, Google came out swinging on the clean energy front, declaring it wanted to make renewable energy cheaper than coal. The company invested tens of millions of dollars into R&D efforts. Just four years later, those efforts had been scrapped.

It would be all too easy to see this as an admission of failure. But Google’s shift in strategy was a reflection of the growing success of the solar sector. And though the deployment of solar photovoltaic technology, which converts light into electricity, has increased rapidly over the past decade, we still need ever further technological advances to keep pushing the existing methods— as well as supporting research and development in new areas. Read the full story.

—Gernot Wagner

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