A lot speaks for solar energy. It's clean, renewable – and now even cheaper than energy from fossil fuels like coal or natural gas. Sounds pretty great, right? But it only makes up a tiny bit of global electricity production. Why don't we use a lot more of it yet?

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READ MORE:

Cost of solar:
https://www.irena.org/-/media/Files/I...
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/so...

Solar and wind in global electricity production:
https://yearbook.enerdata.net/renewab...

The duck curve:
https://www.caiso.com/Documents/Flexi...
https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/...

Growth of solar energy:
https://www.iea.org/reports/renewable...

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Author: Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann
Video Editor: Cem Springer
Supervising Editor: Kiyo Dörrer