2025 PV Circularity Workshop Agenda

Learn about topics of discussion and activities at NREL’s 2025 PV Circularity Workshop, to be held March 20–21, 2025.

A full workshop agenda is forthcoming.

Topics for Discussion

We are building an agenda focused on data and dialogue over:

  • Renewable energy sustainability in perspective
  • Definitions, metrics, and pathways to sustainability
  • Goals and challenges for renewables
  • Current status of CE practices and policies
  • Industrial symbiosis and supply chain synergies
  • Renewables powering social and energy justice
  • Sustainability and resiliency
  • Actionable sustainability for stakeholders
  • Establishing a sustainability ecosystem for manufacturing
  • Specific field circularity and sustainability experiences.

A circular economy for the PV industry is critical to PV supply security, advanced manufacturing, responsible development practices that consider the entire lifecycle, domestic recycling-based resource recovery, and secondary market opportunities for the solar industries and industries across the energy transition.

The workshop will also include tutorials on the first day and a tour of NREL’s campus on the last day.

Activities by Day

The outline of the workshop is as follows.

Wednesday, March 19, 3–5 p.m.
Optional tour of NREL facilities. Please review NREL’s security procedures. All tour attendees must register, select their tour, and complete the required information by Feb. 10. International attendees will also need to complete a secondary approval process, which must be submitted by the same deadline.

Thursday, March 20, and Friday, March 21, 8 a.m.–5 p.m.
Keynotes, presentations, and panel discussions focused on data and dialogues

Saturday, March 22, Times TBD
Optional hands-on tutorial on PV reuse. There may be an extra fee for lunch.

Workshop Check-In

Check in at the Marriott Denver West. You must check in before you attend sessions or meals. Check-in is available during the following dates and times.

Thursday and Friday, March 20–21
7 a.m.–4 p.m.

Meals

Please note that a buffet breakfast and lunch will be provided during the workshop on Thursday and Friday. Food options will be vegetarian to quantify and minimize the CO2 emissions of this workshop.

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