Themes and Topics

• Solar Buildings and Architecture
  • Solar Architecture and Building Integration
  • Building Material and Components
  • Net Zero Energy Buildings
  • Advanced HVAC
  • Daylighting
  • Rational Use of Energy in Buildings
  • Other issues related to Solar Buildings
• Resource Assessment and Energy Meteorology
  • Solar Radiation Availability and Variability
  • Renewable Energy Resource Assessment
  • Resource Forecasting
  • Theoretical, Technical and Economic Potentials
  • Instrumentation and Tools
  • Other issues related to energy meteorology and resource assessment
• Renewable Electricity Technologies: Photovoltaics
  • PV Cells, Materials and Components
  • Thin Film Solar Cells
  • Advanced Materials and Concepts
  • Design, Operation and Performance of PV Systems
  • Balance of Plant Components
  • Concentrating PV
  • Grid-integrated PV
  • Other issues related to PV fundamentals and technologies
• Renewable Electricity Technologies: CSP, Biomass, Geothermal, Wind, Hydro, Ocean & Other
  • Solar concentration fundamentals and optical engineering, heat transfer, materials and components
  • Solar Thermal Electricity Systems
  • Solar Fuels and Chemicals
  • Solar Detoxification and Photo-catalytic Processes
  • Biomass Energy, Geothermal & Other thermal Renewables
  • Wind Energy, Ocean Energy, Hydro and other direct conversion renewables
  • Other issues related to renewable thermal electricity
• Solar Heating and Cooling: Fundamentals & Applications
  • Solar Collectors (including Thermal-PV collectors)
  • Solar and Heat Pump Systems
  • Testing, Certification and Quality Assessment, Simulation and Engineering Tools
  • Solar Domestic Hot Water and Combisystems
  • Solar Cooling and Air Conditioning
  • Solar District Heating and Cooling
  • Solar Heat for Industrial and Commercial Applications
  • Solar Distillation and Solar Thermal Desalination
• Solar Energy and Society
  • Strategies and Policies
  • International Renewable Energy Review
  • Solar Cities
  • Development of Community Renewable Energy Projects
  • Education and Training
  • Workforce Development
  • Gender and energy
• Energy Storage
  • Electrical Storage, Pumped Hydro and Mechanical Storage
  • High Temperature Thermal Energy Storage
  • Low-Medium Temperature Thermal Storage
  • Energy Storage in Buildings
  • Novel storage concepts
• Renewable Energy Grid Integration & Distribution
  • Grid integration of variable renewable energy systems
  • Automation and control
  • Smart Grids strategies including smart metering
  • Active Demand-Side Management
  • Communications & Data
• Off-Grid & Rural Energy Access
  • Electrical and Thermal Energy Supply
  • Small Wind and Small Hydro Power
  • Micro power and hybrid systems
  • Energy Access and Security
  • Expansion of RE in developing countries, off-grid systems
  • Solar Cooking and Clean Cook Stoves
  • Solar Food Processing, including crop drying
• Clean Transportation Technologies & Strategies
  • Renewable Energy in transport sector
  • Solar powered vehicles
  • Transport electrification and integration of Renewable Energy
  • Hydrogen vehicles
  • Policy, planning and economics