Featured in A solar lifeline – 07-2021

Invention, the mother of necessity

From want to need; it’s a marketer’s dream, but it’s precisely the transition that solar has undergone over the last 10-15 years. Previously, PV was an expensive product, cost effective only when the provision of electricity from fossil fuels was prohibitively high or in the domain of environmentalist diehards, committed to low carbon technology no matter the cost.

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Jonathan Gifford

08 Jul 2021

Image: pv magazine/Stefanie Loos

In 2021, that is no longer the case. PV is proving to be a vital tool not only to achieve carbon emissions reductions, but to provide reliable electricity when existing networks are unable to do so. This is true of conflict regions, where refugee populations and those disempowered by long-running military combat have found …

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