From rooftop panels to grid-scale battery storage, the solar revolution is reshaping the global energy system at record speed. As costs fall and deployment surges, photovoltaics and BESS are emerging as the twin engines driving electrification, decarbonisation and a new era of affordable, resilient clean energy worldwide.
Since the beginning of the solar energy era around the year 2000, photovoltaics have grown in a way that is unprecedented in energy history. No other energy source has ever been adopted so quickly on a global scale. Following the oil crisis of the 1970s, governments and researchers sought to harness solar radiation as a limitless alternative energy source for industrial use.
Today, photovoltaics and solar thermal energy have firmly established themselves as clean, efficient energy generation technologies. According to a study by the International Energy Agency (IEA), photovoltaics now dominate the annual increase in electricity generation capacity worldwide and are gaining an ever-increasing share of the local electricity mix. Solar energy is displacing fossil fuels due to lower costs and higher efficiency.