{"title":"Global Progress Toward Renewable Electricity: Tracking the Role of Solar (Version 3)","authors":"N. Haegel, Sarah R. Kurtz","doi":"10.1109/JPHOTOV.2023.3309922","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"2022 was a milestone year for photovoltaics (PV), with cumulative installed global capacity exceeding 1 TW. PV represented 56% of newly installed global electricity generating capacity for 2022, the second year in a row that this metric exceeded 50%. The combined contributions of nonhydro renewable electricity generation (solar, wind, tidal, geothermal, and biomass) was comparable to that of hydropower for the first time in history. However, the total combination of carbon-free generation sources (hydro, nuclear, and renewables) stayed constant at ∼38% of total electricity, with the annual growth in overall generation (∼2%) balancing the large fractional growth in solar (25%) and wind (14%). Following its initial publication in 2021 with 1990–2020 data, this annual article will continue to collect information from multiple sources and present it systematically as a convenient reference for IEEE JPV readers. This year, for the first time, we present data on the growth of storage capacity. We find that growth of stationary battery storage now exceeds growth of pumped hydropower storage. That same annual investment in new stationary batteries, however, is small compared to the growth of battery storage in electric vehicles.","PeriodicalId":445,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics","volume":"23 1","pages":"768-776"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5000,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2023.3309922","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"ENERGY & FUELS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
2022 was a milestone year for photovoltaics (PV), with cumulative installed global capacity exceeding 1 TW. PV represented 56% of newly installed global electricity generating capacity for 2022, the second year in a row that this metric exceeded 50%. The combined contributions of nonhydro renewable electricity generation (solar, wind, tidal, geothermal, and biomass) was comparable to that of hydropower for the first time in history. However, the total combination of carbon-free generation sources (hydro, nuclear, and renewables) stayed constant at ∼38% of total electricity, with the annual growth in overall generation (∼2%) balancing the large fractional growth in solar (25%) and wind (14%). Following its initial publication in 2021 with 1990–2020 data, this annual article will continue to collect information from multiple sources and present it systematically as a convenient reference for IEEE JPV readers. This year, for the first time, we present data on the growth of storage capacity. We find that growth of stationary battery storage now exceeds growth of pumped hydropower storage. That same annual investment in new stationary batteries, however, is small compared to the growth of battery storage in electric vehicles.
期刊介绍:
The IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics is a peer-reviewed, archival publication reporting original and significant research results that advance the field of photovoltaics (PV). The PV field is diverse in its science base ranging from semiconductor and PV device physics to optics and the materials sciences. The journal publishes articles that connect this science base to PV science and technology. The intent is to publish original research results that are of primary interest to the photovoltaic specialist. The scope of the IEEE J. Photovoltaics incorporates: fundamentals and new concepts of PV conversion, including those based on nanostructured materials, low-dimensional physics, multiple charge generation, up/down converters, thermophotovoltaics, hot-carrier effects, plasmonics, metamorphic materials, luminescent concentrators, and rectennas; Si-based PV, including new cell designs, crystalline and non-crystalline Si, passivation, characterization and Si crystal growth; polycrystalline, amorphous and crystalline thin-film solar cell materials, including PV structures and solar cells based on II-VI, chalcopyrite, Si and other thin film absorbers; III-V PV materials, heterostructures, multijunction devices and concentrator PV; optics for light trapping, reflection control and concentration; organic PV including polymer, hybrid and dye sensitized solar cells; space PV including cell materials and PV devices, defects and reliability, environmental effects and protective materials; PV modeling and characterization methods; and other aspects of PV, including modules, power conditioning, inverters, balance-of-systems components, monitoring, analyses and simulations, and supporting PV module standards and measurements. Tutorial and review papers on these subjects are also published and occasionally special issues are published to treat particular areas in more depth and breadth.