Metal production requirements for rapid photovoltaics deployment
Open Access
- 16 March 2015
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Energy & Environmental Science
- Vol. 8 (6), 1651-1659
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c5ee00585j
Abstract
To supply even a small share of electricity in 2030, several thin-film photovoltaic (PV) technologies, such as CdTe shown here, would require metal production growth rates that exceed those observed historically. In contrast, crystalline silicon could supply a majority electricity share without requiring unprecedented metal growth rates.Keywords
Funding Information
- U.S. Department of Energy (DE-EE0006131)
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