Back to the future? A shakeup in industrial solar

摘要

Michael Graetzel of Switzerland, is announced as the winner of the 2017 Global Energy Prize for his "transcendent merits in the development of low cost and efficient solar cells". The Global Energy Prize is the worlds leading prize for advanced energy research awarded annually and he will be honored as this year's laureate with a nice gold medal (and the US$693,000 is a nice touch too). The announcement had all the trappings of typical of a big media release as well. However, like many prestigious prizes though, is it only a look down a nostalgic past - or for the solar industry, is this a sign of going back... to the future?