ABSTRACT
The original contributions to the PV book Power for the World: The Emergence of Electricity from the Sunwere written during 2009 and the beginning of 2010: The book was then available in September
Four years have elapsed since then, and this period was exactly
the time when the global PV took off for a revolutionary market
explosion. Obviously, it is now time to summarise the events in this
new Introduction. The content of the original book has not been
modified in the second edition; just the contributions have been
arranged in a more rational order. The original purpose of the book
was historical in nature, and the history of PV and its emergence by
the commitments of international pioneers was in no way affected
by these recent events.
