The Norwegian solar power community gathers for two important events

Publisert: 27. May 2025

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This week, the Norwegian solar power (PV) community was gathered in sunny Son for two important events. On Monday, the Final Conference of the Research centre for sustainable solar cell technology (FME SUSOLTECH) took place. On Tuesday and Wednesday, the annual Norwegian Solar Cell Conference (NSCC) was arranged.

Photo: Jon Arne Wilhelmsen

FME SUSOLTECH is research centre which has been in operation from 2017 until 2025 and was led and hosted by IFE. Erik Stensrud Marstein, chief scientist in PV at IFE has been the centre director. At the Final conference, experts from the centre partners including the leading research groups in Norway and experts from the centre partners from the PV industry and the public sector presented the main results from the centre. They showed that FME SUSOLTECH has been a very productive centre indeed, with close to 1000 publications and presentations, including 130 articles in international scientific journals, 15 PhD candidates and more than 90 MSc students educated and trained! Importantly, the centre has played a very important role in the generation of a substantial volume of research, development and innovation projects, and made important contributions to both the production of renewable electricity and value creation.

The Norwegian Solar Cell Conference was hosted by the newly established Norwegian PV research centre, which is also hosted and led by IFE. This is the most important meeting place for the PV research community in Norway and this year gathered more than 100 people from research, industry and the public sector to share and discuss the most recent developments in the field. IFE was very well represented with a large number of both oral and poster presentations spanning our large and broad activity in the field.

Photo: Jon Arne Wilhelmsen

IFE colleagues gave the following presentations:

1.       An update on the PV industry, Erik S. Marstein

2.       A first look on Antimony-doped n-type Czochralski silicon wafers, Rune Søndenå et al.

3.       Short-term PV power forecasting using spatially resolved production data, Magnus Moe Nygård et al.

4.       Finding the needle in a 100 MWp haystack – O&M of utility-scale PV power plants, Marie Syre Wiig et al.

5.       Analyzing and modeling snow loss in ground-mounted PV systems, Mari B. Øgaard et al.

6.       Modelling and validation of crop yields in Nordic vertical solar parks, Erlend Hustad Honningdalsnes et al.

7.       Operating temperature of floating PV and its effect on performance and reliability, Torunn Kjeldstad et al.

8.       Floating PV in Europe – technology and main market trends, Josefine Selj et al.

9.       A spatially resolved clear-sky filter using photovoltaic modules as cloud detectors, Elin Dypvik Sødahl et al.

10.  Elucidating uncertainty in bifacial photovoltaic gain estimation, Magnus Moe Nygård et al.

11.  Recycling end-of-life PV modules: Laser separation, Per-Anders Hansen et al.

12.  Exploiting circular manufacturing and standardization within integrated PV, Sigrid Rønneberg et al.

13.  EMPOWER: Alternative processes and equipment for advanced manufacturing of PV technologies to boost the European energy independence, Helge Malmbekk et al.

14.  Passivating edges in cut solar cells, Kristin Bergum et al.

15.  Zero Busbar interconnections for the future PV modules, Junjie Zhu et al.

We look forward to next year’s conference!

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