solar中等

One of the past winners, Professor Martin Green from the University of New South Wales, Australia, is the inventor of the Passivated Emitter and Rear Cell technology which is now found in most of the world’s solar panels.

往届获奖者之一、澳大利亚新南威尔士大学的马丁·格林教授发明了钝化发射极和背面电池技术，如今世界上大多数太阳能电池板都采用了这项技术。

Solar panels had few niche uses until they became cheap; now they are transforming the global energy system.

太阳能电池板在变得便宜之前几乎只有一些小众用途；如今它们正在改变全球能源体系。

While fossil fuels — coal, oil, gas — still generate roughly 85 percent of the world’s energy supply, it’s clearer than ever that the future belongs to renewable sources such as wind and solar.

尽管化石燃料——煤炭、石油、天然气——仍提供着全球约85%的能源供应，但未来属于风能和太阳能等可再生能源这一点比以往任何时候都更加清楚。

But increasingly the story is about the plummeting prices of renewables, especially wind and solar.

但越来越多的原因在于可再生能源价格的暴跌，尤其是风能和太阳能。

The cost of solar panels has dropped by 80 percent and the cost of wind turbines by close to one-third in the past eight years.

在过去八年里，太阳能电池板的成本下降了80%，风力涡轮机的成本下降了近三分之一。

In March, for the first time, wind and solar power accounted for more than 10 percent of the power generated in the US, reported the US Energy Information Administration.

据美国能源信息署报告，今年3月，风能和太阳能发电首次占到美国发电量的10%以上。