Agenda

MARCH 27, 2024
           Time                        Activity
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Registration at Ferst Center for the Arts
9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.
Welcome to Georgia Tech

Chaouki Abdallah, Tim Lieuwen, & Eric Vogel, Georgia Tech

9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Plenary Talk - Enabling our Clean Energy Future

Danielle Merfeld, Qcells

10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.Transit to Exhibition Hall for Sessions
10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Opening Remarks

Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Georgia Tech

 
Systems Integration and the Grid
10:45 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.Moving to the Grid of the Future
Michael Pesin, Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Grid Systems and Components Division, DOE Office of Electricity
11:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.Michael Chanin, Cherry Street Energy
11:45 a.m.- 12:15 p.m.Better Solar and Warehouse Solar at Scale 
James Marlow, Southface Institute
12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.Lunch
 
Silicon and Cadmium Telluride Technologies
1:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.What could a Circular Economy for Solar Look Like? 
Pablo Ribeiro Dias, SolarCycle Inc.
1:45 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.First Solar: Thin-PV at the Multi–GW Scale 
Bill Huber, First Solar
2:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.Ben Damiani, Integrated Solar
2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.Break
 
Emerging Technologies: Perovskite Solar Cell Scale-up
3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.Progress in Perovskite Tandem PV
Thomar Leijtens, Swift Solar
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.Case Study: American-Made Polymer Hole Transport Materials and Journey to Liftoff 
Nick Denegre, American Perovskites
4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.Break
 
Emerging Technologies: New Materials for Solar Cells 
4:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.Challenges and Opportunities in Perovskite Solar Cells 
Kunal Datta, Georgia Tech
4:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.From Solar Photovoltaics to Thermophotovoltaics to Thermoradiative Cells
Zhuomin Zhang, Georgia Tech
5:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.Ajay Upadhyaya, Georgia Tech
5:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m
Closing Remarks

Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Georgia Tech

5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Poster Session & Reception
Solar Panels in a field
Back to Energy Materials Day
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