The Japanese government is planning to generate some 20 gigawatts of electricity, equivalent to the output of 20 nuclear reactors, through thin and bendable perovskite solar cells in fiscal 2040.
The industry ministry plans to designate next-generation solar cells as the key to expanding renewables to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 when it reveals a draft of the country’s revised energy plan in December, according to industry ministry officials.
Since Japan has the second largest share after Chile in the global production of iodine, the primary material for producing perovskite solar cells, it can build an independent supply chain for a stable supply that should help improve its economic security.
File photo shows thin and light perovskite solar cells. (Photo courtesy of Toin University of Yokohama)(Kyodo)
Solar panels have quickly spread throughout Japan after the 2011 nuclear disaster triggered by a…
