Solar energy’s journey from niche beginnings to a multi-terawatt global powerhouse offers valuable lessons for fusion. This timeline highlights the key milestones from the first PV installations in 1954, to today’s rapid growth past 2 TW, to projections of solar supplying more than a quarter of global electricity by 2050.

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