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Metal production requirements for rapid photovoltaics deployment

Content Provider	Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Author	Kavlak, Goksin Jaffe, Robert L. Trancik, Jessika E. McNerney, James
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	As global photovoltaics (PV) deployment grows, the required input materials need to be supplied at an increasing rate. In this paper, we quantify the effect of PV deployment levels on the scale of metal production. For example, we find that if cadmium telluride {copper indium gallium diselenide} PV accounts for more than 3% {10%} of electricity generation by 2030, the required growth rates for the production of indium and tellurium would exceed historically-observed production growth rates for a large set of metals. In contrast, even if crystalline silicon PV supplies all electricity in 2030, the required silicon production growth rate would fall within the historical range. More generally, this paper highlights possible constraints to the rate of scaling up of metal production for some PV technologies, and outlines an approach to assess projected metal growth requirements against an ensemble of past growth rates from across the metal production sector. The framework developed in this paper may be useful for evaluating the scalability of a wide range of materials and devices, to inform technology development in the laboratory, as well as public and private research investment.
Starting Page	1651
Ending Page	1659
Page Count	9
File Format	HTM / HTML PDF
ISSN	17545692
Volume Number	8
Issue Number	6
Journal	Energy & Environmental Science
DOI	10.1039/c5ee00585j
Language	English
Publisher	Royal Society of Chemistry
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Photovoltaics Cadmium telluride photovoltaics Copper indium gallium selenide Gallium Indium Tellurium Crystalline silicon
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Environmental Chemistry Pollution Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Nuclear Energy and Engineering

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