Perovskite Photovoltaics: The Path to a Printable Terawatt-Scale Technology

Berry, Joseph J.; van de Lagemaat, Jao; Al-Jassim, Mowafak M.; Kurtz, Sarah; Yan, Yanfa; Zhu, Kai

doi:10.1021/acsenergylett.7b00964

Perovskite Photovoltaics: The Path to a Printable Terawatt-Scale Technology

Journal Article · Mon Oct 16 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · ACS Energy Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.7b00964· OSTI ID:1405283

Berry, Joseph J. ^[1]; van de Lagemaat, Jao ^[1]; Al-Jassim, Mowafak M. ^[1]; Kurtz, Sarah ^[1]; ^[2]; ^[1]

National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Univ. of Toledo, OH (United States)

Abundant, low-cost, reliable, and clean energy is critical not just to maintain but also to improve the living conditions across the globe. Because of the world's unrelenting population and GDP growth that is only slightly offset by reductions in energy intensity per $ of GDP, it has been estimated that by 2050 the world will consume an average of 30 Terawatts (TW) of total (i.e., not just electricity) energy, of which, assuming no current generation capacity retires, at least between 10-15 TW will be completely new capacity. Addressing this 'Terawatt challenge', a term originally coined by Richard Smalley in 2004, in a nonpolluting and sustainable way is integral to addressing socioeconomic needs in both industrial and rapidly developing countries worldwide. In conjunction with ongoing electrification of the energy system, the vastness of the available solar resource will provide a solution to the world's energy needs if we can develop sufficiently low-cost, high-performance, and massively scalable photovoltaic (PV) technology.

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Research Organization:: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Solar Energy Technologies Office (EE-4S)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC36-08GO28308

OSTI ID:: 1405283

Report Number(s):: NREL/JA--5900-70242

Journal Information:: ACS Energy Letters, Journal Name: ACS Energy Letters Journal Issue: 11 Vol. 2; ISSN 2380-8195

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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