Featured in Awarding excellence – 01-2022

Perseverance pays off

With the global pandemic showing few signs of relenting, disruption is commonplace in many parts of the world. Indeed, the dawn of 2022 is taking place against the backdrop of far more unknowns than knowns. Yet despite this, the PV industry is set to achieve another year of rapid expansion. Global installations are widely tipped to exceed 200GW for the year (pp. 12-13), and it will be one in which the milestone of 1 terawatt of installed PV capacity will be surpassed.

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Jonathan Gifford

12 Jan 2022

Image: pv magazine/Stefanie Loos

Making this dual achievement all the more remarkable has been the environment in which it has been achieved. And that, too, has been one in which disruption has been a major feature. A stretched supply chain, interrupted business travel, a logistics sector in tumult, shifting tariffs and trade disputes, and uncertain policy settings (pp. 10-11) …

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