Norwegian Solar Cell Conference

FME SOLAR continues the popular tradition started in 2013 by previous FME centres, by arranging the Norwegian Solar Cell Conference (NSCC) every year in May. The conference contain two exciting days filled with presentations and discussions of recent scientific, technological, and industrial development in the solar cell industry in beautiful surroundings by the Oslo fjord. 

The topics covered at the conference include:

  • Silicon feedstock, ingots, wafers and crucibles
  • Solar cell and module technology
  • Performance, reliability and operation of PV power plants
  • Building-integrated PV (BIPV), Infrastructure-integrated PV (IIPV), Floating PV (FPV) and Agri-PV
  • Resource and production forecasting
  • PV + storage, hybrid PV power plants and grid integration of PV
  • PV power plants in Nordic conditions
  • Re-use and recycling
  • The role of PV in Norway and Europe
  • Environmental impact and social acceptance of PV production
  • Beyond the horizon: Disruptive PV technologies

 

NSCC 2019

Norwegian Solar Cell Conference 2026

We wish you a warm welcome to the Norwegian Solar Cell Conference 2026, on the 19th - 20th of May at Son Spa! We look forward to seeing you there!

Program

Here you will find the first draft of the program for the NSCC 2026. Please note that changes to the program may occur.

Tuesday 19th of May

10:00

Conference registration

Session 1: Updates on PV today

10:30

The Norwegian PV industry - status and outlook

Erik S. Marstein

IFE

10:45

TBD

TBD

TBD

11:00

Firm power production from hybrid PV + BESS power plants

TBD

Scatec

11:15

PV for resilience 

Josefine H. Selj

IFE

11:30

Lunch

Session 2: Towards a circular PV industry

12:30

Encapsulate-free Modules for High-Purity Material Recovery

Mona T. Hassel

Biosphere Solar

12:45

Purification of End-of-Life PV silicon by modified alkaline leaching

Jonas Låstad

NTNU

13:00

End-of-Life PV Silicon: Metallurgical Viability for Closed‑Loop Feedstock

Kai Tang

SINTEF

13:15

Brief update from QUASAR and RETRIEVE

TBD

SINTEF/IFE

13:30

Coffee break

Session 2: PV Materials

14:00

The effect of impurities in the crucible-feedstock system in the Czochralski silicon production 

Nicolle Tello Diaz 

NTNU

14:15

Characterization of various crucible properties of doped fused quartz glass 

Gabiela K. Warden

NTNU/Quartz Corp

14:30

Influence of the process parameters on the axial and radial resistivity distribution in Sb-doped Cz-crystals

Frank Mosel

PVA Tepla

14:45

SnWO4 for tandem solar cell applications

Ingvild Bergsbak

UiO

15:00

Atomic layer deposition of PV materials

Harald F. Høiland

UiO

15:15

Group photo (outside if possible)

Grab a bite

15:30

Poster session

18:30

Aperitif in bar

19:00

Conference dinner

Wednesday 20th of May

Session 4: PV power plant modeling and analytics

09:00

Quality control and local adaption of CAMS[1] solar irradiance data

Erik Berge

MET

09:15

Energy Yield Assessment in terrain: Comparison of PVCase and PVSyst

Elin Dypvik Sødahl

IFE

09:30

How to make the numbers add up? Loss Decomposition and Performance Benchmarking in Utility-Scale PV and BESS plants

Halvard Haug

Scatec Solar

09:45

Monitoring large scale PV-powerplants, assessing operational losses.

Marie Syre Wiig

IFE

10:00

Poster awards

10:10

Coffee Break

Session 5: Land Use and Dual-Use PV strategies

10:30

PV Power Plants on Peatland? A Feasibility Study at Sundsmyr in Nissedal

Tore Vehus

UiA

10:45

How does ground-mounted PV impact nature and the local environment? Preliminary conclusions from the Envisol project

Heine Nygard Riise

IFE

11:00

Dual-Use PV Strategies: Modelling Land-Constrained PV Deployment in Europe

Thomas Richards

UiO

11:15

A Hybrid Physics and Data-Driven Framework for Modeling Soiling and Yield in Agri-PV Systems

Alfredo Sanchez Garcia

SINTEF

11:30

Lunch

Session 6: Nordic conditions

12:30

Performance, modeling uncertainty, and economic assessment of a PV system at Isfjord Radio

Berhane Darsene Dimd

SINTEF

12:45

Experience from IR campaigns in PV power plants in Norway

Tuva Hebnes / Mari Øgaard

NMBU/IFE

13:00

The role of PV in Norway towards 2050

Stine F. Myhre

IFE

13:15

Techno-Economic Framework for Battery Storage Combined with Utility-Scale PV: A Comparative Case Study of Sweden and Germany

Mohamad Koubar 

Uppsala

13:30

Coffee break

Session 7: Integrated PV solutions

14:00

Insights and challenges in planning utility‑scale floating PV power plants 

Ole Bjørn Warvik

Norconsult

14:15

From Rooftops to Infrastructure: Scaling BIPV & IIPV Across Europe

Andrejs Mlijevskis

Solitek

14:30

From Solar Module to Holistic Building Material

Tom Melkert

NTNU/Soluxa

14:45

Closing remarks

15:00

Bus departure from Son Spa to Sonsveien stasjon. The bus leaves on time!

FME SOLAR General Assembly

The meeting will be arranged directly following the Norwegian Solar Cell Conference (NSCC)