The Promise of Perovskite: Lightweight, Flexible Solar Panels Set for Launch in Japan

Solar panels washed away with earth in a landslide. (Courtesy the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry)

Installed Solar Capacity by Flatland Area

Morita Takeharu of Sekisui Chemical holds a prototype flexible solar cell. (© Mochida Jōji)

Artist’s impression of a skyscraper planned for Uchisaiwaichō, Tokyo, that will generate electricity through perovskite solar cells in its walls. (Courtesy TEPCO Power Grid)

A vision of urban use of flexible solar panels. (© 2021–24 Toshiba Corporation, All Rights Reserved)

Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions conducted an experiment together with the Tokyo Metropolitan Government on the use of flexible solar panels in plastic greenhouses. (Courtesy Tokyo Metropolitan Agriculture and Forestry Research Center)