Energy innovation: Workers perform a quality check on a solar panel in Suzhou. Perovskite cells are “our best card to achieve both decarbonisation and industrial competitiveness”, says Yoji, with a desire to break China’s solar supremacy. — The New York Times
TOKYO: Japan is heavily investing in a new kind of ultra-thin, flexible solar panel that it hopes will help it meet renewable energy goals while challenging China’s dominance of the sector.
Pliable perovskite panels are perfect for mountainous Japan, with its shortage of flat plots for traditional solar farms.
