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Solar Power for the World
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Solar Power for the World

by Wolfgang Palz
October 2013
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
800 pages
22h 43m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Solar Power for the World
Chapter 14
The Role of Research Institutes for the
Promotion of PV: The Case of Fraunhofer
ISE (Institute of Solar Energy Systems)
Adolf Goetzberger
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Germany
When I founded the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems
in 1981, the world market for PV was about 4 MW. This is miniscule
as compared to the Gigawatts produced today. At that time, solar
energy was considered Utopian and “experts”, particularly from
utilities predicted that it would never become a viable energy
source. They pointed to the supposedly low solar radiation in
Germany and did not even bother to look at the numbers. When
randomly selected, ...
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ISBN: 9789814411875