Solar photovoltaics is ready to power a sustainable future

2021/03/29 by Marta Victoria, Nancy Haegel, N. M. Haegel +13 · 2 voices · 699 citations
Energy · Engineering · Environmental Science · #Architectural engineering #Business #Electrical engineering #Energy and Environment Impacts #Engineering #Engineering physics #Environmental planning #Environmental science #Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems #Photovoltaic Systems and Sustainability #Photovoltaic system #Photovoltaics #Physics #Power (physics) #Solar power

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.joule.2021.03.005

published in Joule 5(5), 1041-1056 (Elsevier BV)

openalex publication_date 2021/03/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01

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Discussions

• Furthermore, most of the increase in electricity demand is due to cooling, whose temporal pattern matches perfectly with solar generation. So, yeah, the future is solar! We made similar arguments in [bsky, 18 points, 1 comments]
• Thanks Christoph! Yeah, that might work, but would be harder to read the costs then. @martavictoria.bsky.social had a version with the ratio of winter over summer versus population in her paper doi.or [bsky, 4 points, 0 comments]