2025 PV Circularity Workshop

NREL is hosting the 2025 PV Circularity Workshop to foster research and collaboration on decarbonizing the global economy for the photovoltaic (PV) industry and to increase sustainability.

When

March 20–21, 2025

Where

Marriott Denver West

1717 Denver West Marriott Blvd,

Golden, CO 80401

What To Expect

Refer to agenda for workshop discussion topics.

The workshop is limited to 100 in-person participants, including federal, state, and local regulators; PV owners; manufacturers; and sustainability researchers interested in a circular economy for the PV industry.

Important Dates 

Jan. 15, 2025
Request for minority, family-care, and/or students support deadline

Feb. 10, 2025
Deadline to register for NREL tour

Feb. 17, 2025
Hotel room block cut-off date
Last day to secure the early-bird workshop registration rate

March 12, 2025
Registration closes (registration may close earlier if the workshop is full)

Workshop Cost

Early Bird Registration is $250 (register before Feb. 17)

Regular registration is $300.

Lodging, Venue, and Transportation

The 2025 PV Circularity Workshop will be held at the Marriott Denver West, 1717 Denver West Marriott Blvd., Golden, CO 80401.

The room block rate for March 19–21, 2025, is $156.00 per night for one to two guests at the prevailing government rate, excluding taxes. To secure this rate, reserve by Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. Individual reservations can be canceled up to 72 hours before arrival.

Book your group rate with the Marriott.  

Denver offers a light rail from the airport, which costs $10.50 for an airport day pass that allows unlimited rides. More information can be found on the RTD website.

New to the light rail? Here’s how to get from Denver International Airport (DIA) to the Denver Marriott West Hotel:

  • Take the A Line from the airport to Union Station.
  • Transfer to the W Line (follow signs to Chestnut Pavilion, walking northwest on 17th St.).
  • Ride the W Line to Oak Station.
  • Take Bus 17 for 10 stops until W Colfax Ave and Denver West Blvd.
  • Walk a short distance to the Denver Marriott West Hotel.

Find more detailed public transportation directions on Google Maps.

The CO2 emissions for a single-way trip with Denver public transportation is 0.0 tCO2.

Alternatively, Uber and Lyft are available, ranging from $40 to $80, depending on the time of day.

Car rentals are also available at DIA. Take a shuttle from the airport’s Level 5, Island 4, to access various rental companies. See the DIA website for more information on rentals.

There are other transportation options on DIA’s website.

Attendance Options and Support

The workshop will be livestreamed to facilitate hybrid attendance and accessibility. Zoom transcript options will be available on this attendance mode.

Speakers are requested to attend in person.

Participation of the in-person and virtual audience for the Q&A will be facilitated via SLIDO. Tutorials, NREL tours, and networking will not be available for online participants.

Registration cost is the same for in-person and online attendance.

We will be granting a select number of registration and/or travel grants supported by our sponsors to minority researchers, parents who require childcare, and students.

Please email PVCircularity.Workshop@nrel.gov with your name and a paragraph describing your research/interests and how this support would make a difference for your attendance to the event. The deadline for submission is Jan. 15, 2025.
We are seeking sponsors to support attendance of students and minority researchers to this workshop. Sponsors will be acknowledged on the agenda and during the event, and they are also welcome to include useful and reusable swag.

Sustainability and Diversity at the Workshop

Sustainability and diversity are important components of the workshop. For this reason, we’ve carefully curated the workshop to ensure we minimize our carbon footprint and create a welcoming, accessible environment for participants. This includes providing a hybrid format, an equitable Q&A platform, offering attendance support for minority researchers and students, providing low-carbon foods and reusable utensils, including pronouns on name badges, diversity tracking, and developing panels with equitable gender representation.

Registration

After you complete and submit the registration form, you will receive instructions on how to pay the $250 early-bird or $300 regular registration fee. For a PV Reliability Workshop attendee discount, email PVCircularity.Worshop@nrel.gov.

Would you like to include your pronouns on your badge?
How will you participate in the workshop? (Required)
Will you attend in-person or virtually? (Required)
I authorize Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, the manager and operator of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, to use any image or video taken of me at this event. (Required)
I authorize Alliance for Sustainable Energy LLC, the manager and operator of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, to include my presentation in the online proceedings of the PV Circularity Workshop. (Required)
Please subscribe me to NREL’s PV Circularity Workshop mailing list.
Your information will be used to send you announcements when the proceedings are published and when we schedule future iterations of the PV Circularity workshop.
Will you attend the in-person NREL Tour on Wednesday, March 19 from 3 to 5 p.m.? (Required)
Note: you must register by Feb. 10 to select ‘yes’ to attend the NREL tour.
Are you interested in attending the Hands-On PV Module Reuse Tutorial on March 22? (Required)
The tutorial’s cost and time (likely through the afternoon) are still being planned, so marking Yes on this question does not commit you to attending. There may be a fee for lunch.
At the end of the workshop, we will share a list of names and emails of attendees to support further collaboration. Would you like to be included in this list?

Diversity Evaluation (Optional)

"We treasure what we measure.” The workshop is committed to ensuring better access to our diverse PV and sustainability community by providing better representation. Please answer the following questions to help us better serve you and the community. Demographic information will be anonymized and retained to track bulk attendance demographics over time

Please direct any further questions or comments to PVCircularity.Workshop@nrel.gov.

Do you identify with any of the following racial and ethnic categories?
If you're curious of the definitions, you can view them here: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/not-od-15-089.html
Besides the above, do you identify with any underrepresented group(s)?
 

Data and Privacy Notice

NREL staff will use the information you provide only to plan the workshop. NREL will not share this information, with the exception of sharing your name and email with other attendees, if you indicated above that you wish us to do so. Information will be retained for 1 month after the event, except for demographic information and email addresses. Email addresses will be retained for 2 years so that organizers can notify you when the next iteration of the workshop is being planned; then email addresses will be deleted, unless you indicated above that you wish to be subscribed to the workshop’s mailing list. Demographic information will be anonymized and retained to track bulk attendance demographics over time. See NREL’s security and privacy policy.

Contact

For more information, contact the workshop organizers at PVCircularity.Workshop@nrel.gov.

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