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The belief that coal resources will eventually deplete has been a driving force for the recent spate of solar-powered technological advances. The first rooftop solar photovoltaic demonstration, including 1% efficient selenium cells, was put up in New York City by Charles Fritts in 1884. Progress in solar-based technology, however, halted in the middle of the twentieth century as coal and petrol became more widely available and affordable. It was estimated that by 1974, around one in six houses in North America relied only on solar panels for all of their energy needs. After the oil embargo in 1973 and the subsequent energy crisis in 1979, the world's attention once again turned to solar energy. Rapid expansion of photovoltaic frameworks may be traced back to the years 19701983. However, sun-based energy was scaled down between 1984 and 1996 as oil prices dropped . The mid-1990s witnessed a revival in the construction of solar panels on residential and commercial roofs as well as large-scale solar-oriented power facilities. This was due to the scarcity of conventional fuels like oil and gas, concerns about the environment, and the indisputably prohibitive cost of solar electricity compared to alternative options. Feed-in tariffs, a regulation that gives renewable energy priority on the grid and sets a price for produced power, caused a boom in PV projects in Europe around the turn of the century.Today's SituationAlthough Europe was the driving force behind global solar PV growth for a considerable amount of time, the focus has shifted to Asia, particularly China and Japan. Australia, Canada, India, Israel, Mexico, South Africa, South Korea, Thailand, and the United States are just some of the countries and regions that have joined the solar-powered revolution.
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