As the world heats up, solar panels will degrade faster – especially in hot, humid areas. What can we do?
- Written by: Shukla Poddar, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Photovoltaics and Renewable Energy Engineering, UNSW Sydney
Tijnlp/ShutterstockTo reach the goal of 82% renewable energy in Australia’s grid by 2030, we’ll need to build a lot more solar.
But even as we accelerate the rate at which we install solar on our rooftops and in grid-scale farms, the world keeps getting hotter and extreme weather arrives more often.
Solar panels have to be outside,...