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From 300 GW to 3,000 GW per year – a utopia?

The photovoltaic industry is expected to achieve annual global expansion of 300 GW as early as this year. That sounds like a lot, but is it enough? In view of climate change and rising energy demand, it is time for a new vision, as pv magazine publisher Eckhart K. Gouras reports.

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Eckhart Gouras

10 Jan 2023

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At the “Forum New Energy World” conference hosted by Conexio in Berlin in September, 2022, one session posed a provocative question: “Three thousand [GW] instead of 300 GW of solar additions – crazy idea or hard-hitting reality?”Ten years ago, pv magazine and the forum – at that time, both part of renewable energy consultant Solarpraxis AG – suggested …

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