Article in Journal Science

April 7, 2023

The prestigious scientific journal Science published the article Photovoltaics at multi-terawatt scale: Waiting is not an option, which was signed by the most prominent American, Asian and European experts in the field of photovoltaics, including Prof. dr. Marko Topič from the Laboratory for Photovoltaics and Optoelectronics together with five colleagues of the European Technology and Innovation Platform (ETIP PV), to which Prof. Topič presided until recently.

The article talks about the important contribution of photovoltaics to the transformation of energy, which was prepared by the aforementioned experts after the third international Terawatt Workshop. The article substantiates the reasons for the exponential growth of photovoltaics, which exceeded the total power of 1000 GW of solar power plants by 2022 and, based on current research and innovation, projects that in the next decade we will maintain a 25% annual global growth of photovoltaics and reach 75 TW of installed solar power by 2050 power plant. Given the climate crisis, hesitation is out of the question. At this rate, photovoltaics will play a key role in limiting climate change and in the transition to sustainable energy. Not only in the field of electricity production, but also with the electrification of other energy sectors and the production of solar fuels with hydrogen at the forefront.