Installed global solar capacity in 2024 was 452 GW, 27% up on 2023 numbers. A comparable increase in 2025 means the world will be installing approximately 200 nuclear power plants worth of solar electricity in 2025.
Still, solar is only 7% of the world's electricity capacity. Some people wonder if solar power is on an s-curve adoption rate. That is typically how new technologies (but not new energy sources) are adopted and could see solar reach near 100% levels in the early 2030s.
Longi achieves 34.85% efficiency for two-terminal tandem perovskite solar cell
Battery maker Longi has achieved 27.81% efficiency with its commercially available solar cells and says in lab tests it has 34.85% efficiency for new two-terminal tandem perovskite solar cells.
byu/lughnasadh inFuturology
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Longi is a solar manufacturer not battery manufacturer.
Climate deniers still go on about how renewables can’t meet all our needs, but the rate of sustained innovation and cost reduction being delivered is just extraordinary.
These are both great results. It is too bad that we cannot take advantage of these advances in our backwards country.