QUIZ: What Do You Know About Solar Power Manufacturing?
QUIZ: What Do You Know About Solar Power Manufacturing?
Photovoltaic technology has an exciting past, present, and future.
It used to be that photovoltaic cells were so expensive that solar power was only used in niche applications like pocket calculators and communications satellites. Today, that has all changed. Not only is the global solar power nameplate capacity now at 650 GW, but also solar is some of the cheapest power on the electric grid. Test your knowledge of this solar explosion.
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