The book describes the industrial revolution associated with the implementation
of electric power generation by photovoltaics (PV). The book s editor and
contributing authors are among the leading pioneers in PV from its industrial
birth in 1954 all the way up to the stormy developments during the first decade
of the new century. The book describes the dramatic events in industry between
2009 and 2013 and puts all this into perspective. It concludes that solar power
is yet to strengthen its role in technology and in mainstream of the world s
economy.