By Peter Brailovsky, Lorenz Friedrich, Sebastian Nold, Stephan Riepe & Jochen Rentsch, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Freiburg, Germany
To embrace the terawatt-scale challenge of the PV market growth, a low-carbon and resource-efficient pathway has to be guaranteed. An approach for doing this is to enable market mechanisms that account for the greenhouse gases emissions, and their associated costs, from PV systems and components.