Raw material needs for the large-scale deployment of photovoltaics – Effects of innovation-driven roadmaps on material constraints until 2050

Gervais, Estelle; Shammugam, Shivenes; Friedrich, Lorenz; Schlegl, Thomas

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2020.110589

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“…Table 1 gives an overview on the literature considered for this work. [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] The table lists considered deployment levels, considered resources as well as resources found to be critical. Apparently, only few works considered PV deployment in the range of 20-80 TW p necessary for reaching ambitious climate goals.…”

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Technological learning for resource efficient terawatt scale photovoltaics

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Energy Environ. Sci.

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Technological learning for resource efficient terawatt scale photovoltaics

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Energy Environ. Sci.

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“…Even more so as the increasing market capacity for heterojunction (HJT) solar cells as well as upcoming cell technologies like silicon-perovskite-tandem cells require critical materials such as indium in their transparent conductive oxide (TCO) [20].…”

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Sustainability strategies for PV: framework, status and needs

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The large-scale deployment of photovoltaics (PV) is a central pillar in decarbonizing energy systems and reaching climate goals. Although PV is inherently associated to environmental awareness, it is not immune to reputational risks nor exempt of a responsibility for transparency and sustainability leadership. So far, advances in the PV industry have mainly been shaped by cost-reduction targets. We identified in previous works 16 topics where the PV sector comes short in addressing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 12 (SDG 12) “Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns”. In this paper, practical approaches to address each of these sustainability gaps are proposed. The best-practices identified cover all aspects of sustainability as defined by SDG 12–from resource use and hazardous substances through corporate reporting and risk assessment to due diligence and waste management. Insights on methodological needs to improve sustainability assessment and accounting in PV are also provided. The compiled list of actions needed, although not intended to be exhaustive, constitutes a starting point for stakeholders to raise their ambitions and achieve more sustainability in PV value chains.

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“…Aluminium is primarily used at the module level for aluminium framing with consumption of B9000 kg MW À1 for typical 17% efficient modules. 22 With an even larger global aluminium supply scale of 130 megatonnes, 23 aluminium consumption in the PV industry also does not impose any significant material challenges. As another commonly used material in BoS components such as racking systems and transformers, steel has a high consumption level of around 30-45 tonnes per MW.…”

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