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As the world heats up, solar panels will degrade faster – especially in hot, humid areas. What can we do?

  • Written by Shukla Poddar, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Photovoltaics and Renewable Energy Engineering, UNSW Sydney
As the world heats up, solar panels will degrade faster – especially in hot, humid areas. What can we do?Tijnlp/Shutterstock

To reach the goal of 82% renewable energy in Australia’s grid by 2030, we’ll need to build a lot more solar.

But even as we accelerate the rate at which we install solar on our rooftops and in grid-scale farms, the world keeps getting hotter and extreme weather arrives more often.

Solar panels have to be outside,...

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