SUPERNOVA will organise two R&I workshops at Solar Quality Summit Europe 2025

BRUSSELS, Belgium (Thursday 13th February 2025): On 19 February, SUPERNOVA, the Horizon Europe funded project aiming to establish quality and a high-performance for solar PV projects, will organise two sessions at the Solar Quality Summit Europe 2025 conference in Barcelona.

The first workshop, ‘Leveraging the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) for quality assurance,’ will take place on 19 February, 10.30-11.45. This workshop will explore how to use AI to manage and organise large amounts of data, offering solutions through instruction tuning for large language models (LLMs), which are specifically trained to better understand instructions. As AI tools become more powerful, they can provide valuable insights, but these insights need to be carefully managed to avoid overwhelming stakeholders with too much information. 

David Moser, Head of the Photovoltaic Energy System Research group, at the Institute for Renewable Energy (Eurac Research), and European Technology and Innovation Platform for Photovoltaics (ETIP PV) Vice-Chair, will moderate the session, which will also include presentations from: 

• Gofran Chowdhury, Head of Innovation and R&D Team Lead, 3E
• Miguel Herrero Cangas, Senior Market Advisor, PVcase
• Will Hitchcock, Founder & CEO of Above
• Mousa Sondoqah, AI Research Engineer, Eurac Research

SUPERNOVA’s second workshop, ‘Optimising data sharing between operation and maintenance (O&M) service providers, asset managers, and owners,’ will take place on 19 February, 2-3.15pm. This workshop will discuss the creation of a data space for the solar PV sector to support smooth, transaction-based data sharing. Data sharing agreements (DSAs) are often not considered early enough in solar power plant development, usually being worked out later between O&M teams, asset managers, and owners. This often leads to unnecessary time-consuming negotiations, which can hinder research and collaboration.

The session will be moderated by Giuliano Luchetta Martins, Solar Data Analyst for Statkraft UK. 

He will be joined by:

• Andrea Monni, Programme, Quality, and Process Manager, Valmont Solar
• Gautier Moulin, Co-founder and COO, Aevy
• Christian Schill, Head of PV Power Plants and Outdoor Performance Lab, Fraunhofer ISE 
• Jelena Simeunovic, Research and Development Machine Learning Engineer, CSEM

David Moser, Head of the Photovoltaic Energy System Research group, Eurac Research, and ETIP PV Vice-Chair (he/him), said; “The Solar Quality Summit is the must attend event for everyone who holds quality assurance in the solar sector, close to their heart. It provides stakeholders with the opportunity to participate in workshops, interactive sessions, and presentations, ultimately breaking silo mentality. For SUPERNOVA, it is the ideal forum to exchange ideas, which bring concepts related to the use of AI, automated workflow with robotic solutions, and the impact of severe weather conditions into the mix.”

A joint offering from Intersolar Europe and SolarPower Europe, the Solar Quality Summit Europe annual event, brings together leading members of the Operations & Maintenance (O&M), Asset Management, and Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) communities, to advance the long-term quality of Europe’s solar projects.

Notes:

• SUPERNOVA is 3 ½ year Horizon Europe funded project which will aim to increase the O&M grid-friendly design of solar PV plants thanks to advanced software solutions that are evolving the planning, design, and operation of solar PV systems. The project will take a multi-layered approach, integrating individual solutions into interoperable digital platforms, and utilise the power of AI tools to efficiently manage and control huge amounts of data. SUPERNOVA will also focus on data sharing as a means of creating mutual benefit for providers and users. SolarPower Europe is responsible for communications on the project.

David Moser speaking at a TRUST-PV session at Solar Quality Summit 2024 © Joan Gosa