The Untold Story Of Solar Power & Why It Took Decades To Take Off! | With Oxford PV
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🗓️ 20 January 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode of the Everything Electric Show, host Imogen Bhogal chats with Dr. Chris Case, CTO of Oxford PV, about the groundbreaking potential of perovskite tandem solar cells and the future of solar energy. They delve into the fascinating history of solar power, from its origins in 1873, development in the 1940s at Bell Labs, to its decades-long journey to viability and widespread adoption.
The episode also delves into Oxford PV’s record-breaking perovskite technology and its role in revolutionising renewable energy. They explore how solar has evolved into the world’s cheapest and most abundant energy source, transforming the global energy landscape by making renewable power more accessible, and reshaping the future of clean energy.
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Watch our full episode on Oxford PV here: https://youtu.be/MzbXOnkuRSU
00:00 The Cheapest form of energyÂ
01:15 Ad break
01:29 How does a solar cell work?
07:00 The very very first solar panel
11:35 Why did it take so long for solar to take off?
18:51 The space race accelerated solar?
21:00 Fighting technology or cheap politics?!
23:32 The oil crisis 26:14 1980s Solar House
29:57 Propelling solar in the 90s
32:35 Silicon is a sub par choice?!
38:00 A step change in efficiency
41:58 Perovskite solar cells
47:05 A new record?!
50:32 Durability and when can we buy residential perovskite panels?
52:50 Local manufacturing to deploy more solar?!
56:35 The future of solar
1:01:28 How much solar to power the whole world
1:03:20 Concluding thoughts
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the fully charged show podcast where today we're talking all things solar power. |
| 0:06.3 | Now, as many of you may know, solar power is the cheapest form of energy. In fact, costs of solar PV has dropped some 90% since 2010. |
| 0:14.4 | And in fact, costs have dropped about 30% over the past year or so. |
| 0:18.4 | Now, my name's Imgen Bogle. I'm one of the presenters and producers here on |
| 0:21.6 | the show and very shortly I'm going to be joined by our fabulous guest who goes by the name of |
| 0:26.0 | Chris Case. Now, Chris Case is CTO at an organisation called Oxford PV where they are busy |
| 0:32.4 | smashing all sorts of records because they create the world's most efficient commercially available solar panels, |
| 0:39.1 | all thanks to a material called Periscite. We have featured them on the show before, so I'll be |
| 0:44.1 | sure to link to that episode in the description and at the end of this episode as well. |
| 0:49.4 | But Chris, as well as being CTO at Oxford PV, He happens to be one of the most knowledgeable experts when |
| 0:55.9 | it comes to all things solar. So in this episode, we are going to dive right in and go through |
| 1:01.4 | the history, which is totally staggering to find out how we've got to these super, super |
| 1:07.0 | efficient, cheap forms of energy. So buckle up. Let's get in. But first, a very, very |
| 1:14.9 | quick advert break. Love the Everything Electric Show. Then join us live in Sydney in March, |
| 1:21.4 | London and April, or in Vancouver, Farmer and Melbourne in September, October and November |
| 1:26.3 | 2025. |
| 1:33.3 | Chris, thank you so much for giving up your afternoon to join us for this podcast. |
| 1:36.2 | We had a couple of technical difficulties to get to this point, |
| 1:39.3 | so we're hoping that it will be smooth sailing from here on in. |
| 1:44.7 | Now, what I imagine is that we are going to start this conversation somewhere up here, |
| 1:50.6 | and then we'll slowly open the drop-down menus and see which rabbit hole we end up going down. So confusing a couple of phrases there. And the reason that I want to do that is because |
| 1:55.3 | when we interviewed you back in the summer, when we initially came and looked at Oxford PV, |
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