SWC 2025 Themes
The congress invites abstracts spanning the entire solar value chain, providing a platform to explore advancements, innovations, and emerging trends in solar energy. We welcome contributions across a broad range of areas, including solar technologies, applications and their end uses as well as policies, markets, and societal impacts. Submissions addressing innovative solutions, best practices, sustainability, and the role of solar and other renewables in shaping the clean energy transition are highly encouraged.
Theme Overview
The Solar World Congress 2025 technical sessions will be organised around the following themes. Please see below the categories under which the themes are organised and the sub-topics covered under each theme. We welcome abstracts under these themes.
- Solar thermal power
- Solar heating and cooling
- PV cell technology and PV systems
- Renewable resource assessment and meteorology
- Beyond solar: other renewables and associated applications, components, simulation and analysis
- Renewable systems applications
- Microgrids and grid interaction
- Integration of solar energy in architecture and urban planning
- Market, economy, policies, environment and social aspects
Themes and Sub-Topics
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Solar thermal power
- Performance and optimization of solar thermal power systems
- Modelling, digitalization and AI
- Collectors and components for solar thermal power
- Thermal storage technologies and systems
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Solar heating and cooling
- Performance and optimization of solar heating and cooling systems
- Modelling, digitalization and AI
- Collectors and components for solar heating and cooling
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PV cell technology and PV systems
- Advances in c-Si PV cells
- Advances in thin films cells
- Emerging and innovative PV cell technologies (i.e. Perovskite cells)
- Performance and optimization of PV systems
- Modelling, digitalization and AI
- PV system components
- Concentration and solar tracking for PV systems
- Hybrid PV-thermal systems (PVT)
- Energy storage technologies and systems
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Renewable resource assessment and meteorology
- Solar resource forecast
- Modelling, digitalization and AI
- Meteorological data applied to renewable energies
- Instrumentation and measurement
- Renewable energy forecast
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Beyond solar: other renewables and associated applications, components, simulation and analysis
- Wind power systems
- Micro-hydroelectric power systems
- Biomass power systems
- Geothermal power systems
- Tidal power systems
- Hybrid power systems
- Green hydrogen and green ammonia
- Solar fuels
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Renewable systems applications
- Concentrated solar power (CSP) applications
- Cooking and other non-electric applications
- Grid integration of renewable power systems
- Floating PV
- Agrivoltaics
- Electric mobility and other uses of renewable energy for transport and mobility
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Microgrids and grid interaction
- Monitoring and control of microgrids
- Modelling, digitalization and AI
- Smart grids
- Grid integration of microgrids
- Decarbonization of isolated systems
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Integration of solar energy in architecture and urban planning
- Solar PV in buildings
- Solar heating and cooling in buildings
- Net-zero buildings
- Renewable energy supply for buildings, neighborhoods and solar cities
- Efficient buildings and cities
- Thermal comfort in the built environment and bioclimatic architecture
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Market, economy, policies, environment and social aspects
- Social, economic and environmental impacts of renewable energy
- Renewable energy education
- Climate resilience
- Gender equity in renewable energy
- Workforce development and jobs in renewable energy
- History of the renewable energies
- Strategies, scenarios, financing and policies for renewable energy
- Life cycle assessment
- Recycling and circular economy
- Energy transition
- Extreme weather and climate events
- Renewable Energies & COP