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Solar panel advances will see millions go off grid, scientists predict

Solar energy costs have fallen 90 per cent over the last decade, while new discoveries have seen efficiency rates rise

Anthony Cuthbertson

 More than 30 million homes in Europe could meet all their energy needs
using rooftop solar panels alone, according to a new study. Researchers
from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany found that more than
50 per cent of Europe’s 41 million freestanding homes could have been
self-sufficient in 2020 using just solar and batteries, with this figure
expected to rise to 75 per cent by 2050.

Advances with solar technology
mean that it will also make it economically viable for a portion of these
freestanding single-family homes to abandon the electrical grid altogether
in the coming decades. Rather than abandoning the grid altogether, however,
the researchers said it would make more sense at a macroeconomic scale for
households to remain connected and feed excess energy back to other users
during times of overproduction.

 Independent 3rd Nov 2023

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November 7, 2023 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | renewable