The ASES National Solar Conference – now in its 42nd year –
brings the intellectual resources of the clean energy community
together for a crucial cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas.
Soliciting peer-reviewed scientific papers from engineers,
chemists, physicists, social sciences and other disciplines,
ASES taps the nation’s best universities, the Department of
Energy’s national laboratories, and the private sector, to
showcase the latest innovations in renewable energy research.
The ASES conference is a comprehensive survey of photovoltaics,
solar thermal, concentrating solar, small wind, and hydro energy
related software and other critical research tools. Highlights
from the technical sessions: - New techniques for making high-
performance quantum-dot and nanoparticle photovoltaic cells. -
The status of the High Definition PV Project, an industry-wide
program to reduce the cost of solar installations through plug-
and-play standardization. - Several new techniques to reduce the
cost of dispatchable power fro