With an exceptionally strong solar R&D landscape and the most advanced equipment’s providers, it will be essential to leverage existing European R&D resources and know-how to advance these technologies. The conference will highlight how policy, supply chain factors, research and innovation, international trade, economic growth and environmental and climate concerns can deliver the resurgence of a European solar supply chain.

May 25, 2023

Conference 2023 - Summary

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Day 1 : 10 May 2023

Opening Speeches : Rutger Schlatmann (HZB-Institut PVcomB and ETIP PV Chair) 

Lukasz Kolinski, Head of Unit of the renewable energy unit, DG ENER, European Commission

Session 1: Global Solar manufacturing development

• Christian Staudt (McKinsey & Company)
• Markus Beck (US DOE)
• Gulnara Abdullina (LONGi Solar)
• Cosimo Gerardi (Enel Green Power)
• Johan Lindahl (ESMC)

Session 2: Competitiveness of European production, supply chain for overall PV ecosystem

• Peter Fath (RCT Solutions)
• Bianca Lim (ISFH)
• Ozer Ergul (Aquila Capital)
• Wolfgang Storm (Wacker Chemie)
• Goran Bye (Norwegian Crystals)
• Christoph Podewils (Meyer Burger)
• Lucas Weiss (Voltec Solar)

Day 2 : 11 May 2023

Opening Speech: 

Rosalinde Van der Vlies, Director of the Clean Planet, DG RTD, European Commission

Session 3: Photovoltaics innovative technologies manufacturing and in manufacturing for a TW solar age

• Ralf Preu (Fraunhofer ISE)
• Raffaella Giardino (Carbon)
• Anis Jouini (CEA Liten)
• Stefan Rick (Singulus Technologies)

Session 4: Sunstainability and Social impact of Photovoltaics

• Karsten Wambach (bifa Umweltinstitute)
• Raffaele Rossi (SPE)
• Gernot Oreski (PCCL)
• Laura Miranda Perez (Oxford PV)
• Wolfgang Storm (Wacker Chemie)

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