Featured in Burning ambition – 09-2012

300 GW a year: Power in numbers

The 300GW/a initiative: While the production side of the current PV industry sags under the weight of surplus supply, talk of long-term optimism and big goals for future capacity may seem to be nothing but hot air. However in an energy market where things are changing rapidly, pv magazine is tackling the idea of whether 300 GW per year (GW/a) of installed PV generation can be added globally in the year 2025 and beyond.

Big challenges require big thinking. Indeed, some of the data that have been mounting of late have begun to make the challenge posed by climate change seem extremely big. In the July edition of Rolling Stone Magazine for example, long time environmental and climate change author Bill McKibben summed up some of the numbers that …

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