Over the past decade, the global cumulative installed photovoltaic (PV) capacity has grown exponentially, reaching 591 GW in 2019. Rapid progress was driven in large part by improvements in solar cell and module efficiencies, reduction in manufacturing costs and the realization of levelized costs of electricity that are now generally less than other energy sources and approaching similar costs with storage included. Given this success, it is a particularly fitting time to assess the state of the photovoltaics field and the technology milestones that must be achieved to maximize future impact and forward momentum. This roadmap outlines the critical areas of development in all of the major PV conversion technologies, advances needed to enable terawatt-scale PV installation, and cross-cutting topics on reliability, characterization, and applications. Each perspective provides a status update, summarizes the limiting immediate and long-term technical challenges and highlights breakthroughs that are needed to address them. In total, this roadmap is intended to guide researchers, funding agencies and industry in identifying the areas of development that will have the most impact on PV technology in the upcoming years.
Wilson, Gregory M., Al-Jassim, Mowafak, Metzger, Wyatt K., Glunz, Stefan W., Verlinden, Pierre, Xiong, Gang, Mansfield, Lorelle M., Stanbery, Billy J., Zhu, Kai, Yan, Yanfa, Berry, Joseph J., Ptak, Aaron J., Dimroth, Frank, Kayes, Brendan M., Tamboli, Adele C., Peibst, Robby, Catchpole, Kylie, Reese, Matthew O., ... Sulas-Kern, Dana B. (2020). The 2020 photovoltaic technologies roadmap. Journal of Physics. D, Applied Physics, 53(49). https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/ab9c6a
@article{osti_1782696,
author = {Wilson, Gregory M. and Al-Jassim, Mowafak and Metzger, Wyatt K. and Glunz, Stefan W. and Verlinden, Pierre and Xiong, Gang and Mansfield, Lorelle M. and Stanbery, Billy J. and Zhu, Kai and Yan, Yanfa and others},
title = {The 2020 photovoltaic technologies roadmap},
annote = {Over the past decade, the global cumulative installed photovoltaic (PV) capacity has grown exponentially, reaching 591 GW in 2019. Rapid progress was driven in large part by improvements in solar cell and module efficiencies, reduction in manufacturing costs and the realization of levelized costs of electricity that are now generally less than other energy sources and approaching similar costs with storage included. Given this success, it is a particularly fitting time to assess the state of the photovoltaics field and the technology milestones that must be achieved to maximize future impact and forward momentum. This roadmap outlines the critical areas of development in all of the major PV conversion technologies, advances needed to enable terawatt-scale PV installation, and cross-cutting topics on reliability, characterization, and applications. Each perspective provides a status update, summarizes the limiting immediate and long-term technical challenges and highlights breakthroughs that are needed to address them. In total, this roadmap is intended to guide researchers, funding agencies and industry in identifying the areas of development that will have the most impact on PV technology in the upcoming years.},
doi = {10.1088/1361-6463/ab9c6a},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1782696},
journal = {Journal of Physics. D, Applied Physics},
issn = {ISSN 0022-3727},
number = {49},
volume = {53},
place = {United States},
publisher = {IOP Publishing},
year = {2020},
month = {09}}
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