Earth Notes: General Bibliography (chase2023solar)

• [chase2023solar] Jenny Chase Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon (accessed 2023-09-12), edition 2, World Scientific (Europe), 2023-06, ISBN 978-1-80061-492-5, doi:10.1142/q0437 (book) (BibTeX).
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  [First edition reviewed favourably by EOU. Quote: "The price of solar panels is just 6% of what it was in 2008..." Quote: "... as of early 2023 California can cover 7% of its peak power consumption with batteries ..." Quote: "It is reasonably clear how we can get to 80-90% of wind and solar in world electricity supply with batteries while electrifying heating and ground transport. Getting to 100% will not be easy and may require some expensive things like hydrogen for power, or some difficult-to-scale things like biomass and biofuel, or something not invented yet." Quote c/o Richard Thonig: "solar thermal for electricity generation isn't (necessarily) dead yet." Quote c/o Jenny Nelson: "the maximum possible efficiency of a single junction solar cell under one standard sun of incoming is about 33%. Adding a second junction [layer] can take that into the 40s." Quote: "Anecdotally, customers wanting to have a solar system installed were put on waiting lists of 8-12 months (and as of early 2023, this is still the case). 'Balcony solar' or 'plug-in solar,' consisting of just a few panels plugged into a standard household plug to cover instantaneous household power demand, can now be seen on houses and apartment blocks in Germany and Switzerland."]