ch. 1, part 1. The rising sun in a developing world -- chapter 1, part 2. Solar power for the world -- chapter 1, part 3. PV today and forever -- chapter 2. My solar age started with Tchernobyl / Franz Alt -- chapter 3. More electricity for less Co[subscript 2] / Yves Bamberger -- chapter 4. Solar power in practice / Stefan Behling -- chapter 5. The story of developing solar glass facades / Joachim Benemann -- chapter 6. Bringing the oil industry into the picture / Karl Wolfgang Boer -- chapter 7. Factory for sale : or the long and stony way to cheap solar energy : the story of the thin-film CdTe solar cells : first solar and others : a semi-autobiography / Dieter Bonnet -- chapter 8. Photovoltaics in the World Bank Group portfolio / Anil Cabraal -- chapter 9. Solar bicycles, Mercedes, handcuffs : plus energy buildings / Gallus Cadonau -- chapter 10. Photovoltaic power systems for lifting women out of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa / Dominique Campana -- chapter 11. Solar cell development work at COMSAT Laboratories (1967-1975) / Denis J. Curtin -- chapter 12. SolarBank / Michael T. Eckhart -- chapter 13. Will this work? Is it realistic? : thoughts and acts of a political practitioner with a solar vision / Hans-Josef Fell -- chapter 14. The IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference / Americo F. (Moe) Forestieri -- chapter 15. Review of China's solar PV industry in 2009 / Gao Hu -- chapter 16. Lighting the world : yesterday, today and tomorrow / Biswajit Ghosh --

ch. 17. The role of research institutes for the promotion of PV : the case of Fraunhofer ISE (Institute of Solar Energy Systems) / Adolf Goetzberger -- chapter 18. Abandoning nuclear in favor of renewable energies / Giuliano Grassi -- chapter 19. Nonconventional sensitized mesoscopic (Gratzel) solar cells / Michael Gratzel -- chapter 20. The PV World Conference in Vienna / Wolfgang Hein -- chapter 21. PV in Japan : yesterday, today and tomorrow / Osamui Ikki and Izumi Kaizuka -- chapter 22. PV in Europe, from 1974 to 2009 : a personal experience / Helmut Kiess -- chapter 23. PV in Berlin : how it all began : the story of solon, Q-Cells, PV in Brazil / Stefan Krauter -- chapter 24. Three steps to a solar system : 1-40% and 100% / Harry Lehmann -- chapter 25. France did not want to look for the sun. / Alain Liebard and Yves-Bruno Civel -- chapter 26. On the international call for photovoltaics of 2008 / Daniel Lincot -- chapter 27. High efficiency photovoltaics for a sustainable world / Antonio Luque -- chapter 28. Promoting PV in developing countries / Bernard McNelis -- chapter 29. A world in blue / Bernd Melchior -- chapter 30. The history of renewable energies in the Canary Islands, especially in Tenerife / Ricardo Melchior and Manuel Cendagorta -- chapter 31. Why was Switzerland front-runner for PV in the 90s but lost the leadership after 2000? / Thomas Nordmann -- chapter 32. A world network for solar R&D : ISES / Monica Oliphant -- chapter 33. Early work on photovoltaic devices at the Bell Telephone Laboratories / Morton B. Prince -- chapter 34. Leaders of the early days of the Chinese solar industry / Qin Haiyan -- chapter 35. Illiterate rural grandmothers solar-electrifying their own villages / Bunker Roy -- chapter 36. The kick-off PV programme in Germany : the one thousand PV roofs programme / Walter Sandtner -- chapter 37. History of technologies, development for solar silicon cost reduction / Frederick Schmid -- chapter 38. The story of sunpower / Richard M. Swanson -- chapter 39. Terrestrial photovoltaic industry : the beginning / Peter F. Varadi -- chapter 40. Solar power in Geneva, Switzerland / Philippe Verburgh -- chapter 41. Early PV markets and solar solutions in South Asia / Neville Williams.