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How Did Solar Power Get Cheap? Part II - by Brian Potter

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(note: all quotes are from Nemet’s How Solar Energy Became Cheap unless otherwise noted.)

(note: all quotes are from Nemet’s How Solar Energy Became Cheap unless otherwise noted.) Welcome to Part II of “How did Solar Power Get Cheap?” To recap Part I, the modern solar photovoltaic (PV) cell was invented at Bell Labs in 1954. Early markets were almost entirely satellites, followed by other remote power uses such as navigation buoys and offshore platforms. The US led the world in solar cell R&D until the mid-1980s, when a fall in energy prices caused interest in PV to wane and funding to be slashed. After this, the locus of solar PV development moved elsewhere - first to Japan,…

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