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Contents
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2.3.3 PV Costs and Benefits for Society: A Special
Role for the Grid Operators 138
2.4 A New Energy Paradigm 140
2.4.1 Centralised or Decentralised PV 140
2.4.2 What Role Can Conventional Power Utilities
Play 142
2.4.3 Communities and Regions Mastering Their
Own Energy Supply 144
2.4.4 The Autonomous Energy House: Solar
Architecture and the Building Industry 145
2.5 Power for the People 150
2.5.1 Starting a Global Strategy: 10 Watts per Head 150
2.5.2 PV for the People in the Industrialised World 151
2.5.3 PV for the People in the Solar Belt 152
2.6 Power for the Poor 156
2.6.1 Getting Involved 156
2.6.2 PV Power for the Poor in the Developing
Countries 171
2.6.3 Power for the Poor in the Industrialised
Countries 174
2.7 Power for Peace 174
3 PV Today and Forever 177
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3.1 Solar Power 2009–10: A Wealth of Achievements 177
3.1.1 The Global PV Markets 2009–10 177
3.1.2 Political, Financial, and Industrial Environment 180
3.1.3 The Technology Boom Goes On 183
3.2 Outlook 184
3.2.1 On the Threshold of Commercial Viability 184
3.2.2 Outlook towards 2020 186
3.2.3 PV as Part of a 100 Percent Renewable Energy
World 190
3.3 Conclusions 196
PART II
THE BEGINNING OF PV IN THE UNITED STATES
4 Early Work on Photovoltaic Devices at the Bell Telephone
Laboratories 199
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