SOLAR 2025: Innovation for Universal Renewable Energy Access

University of Colorado Boulder | August 4-6, 2025

Conference Chair: David Ginley, PhD., ASES Board of Directors; Chief Scientist, NREL

Technical Review Chair: Paulette Middleton, President of Panorama Pathways

Submit an Extended Abstract to Present at SOLAR 2025!


Thank you to everyone who participated in the American Solar Energy Society’s 53rd National Solar Conference on May 20-23! We are overflowing with gratitude. Scroll down to see our urgent call to action!

  1. Why Attend?
  2. Who Attends?
  3. Plenary Speaker Spotlights
  4. Message from the Conference Chair, Scott Sklar
  5. Sponsorship Opportunities
  6. Speaker Opportunities: Conference Proceedings

Urgent Call to Action

Why Attend?
The National Solar Conference is America’s leading conference on the emerging trends, technology, and opportunities shaping the new energy economy. The American Solar Energy Society’s cutting-edge conference series introduces attendees to the leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs moving the industry forward. With the solar energy and energy efficiency sectors changing at an unprecedented pace, this conference helps participants understand the changes and uncover the billion-dollar opportunities. ASES supports the global energy transformation and believes a world equitably transformed to 100% renewable energy is an urgent necessity.

Through the SOLAR 2025 ASES national solar conference, we will elevate public, institutional, and governmental awareness of the critical role solar energy is playing in the global energy landscape. We must ensure that access to and the benefits from clean energy will be enjoyed by all communities, especially those that have been denied those benefits in the past. SOLAR 2025 will promote ASES’ overall goal to “accelerate equitable solar adoption and universal sustainable living by educating and building community.” The conference will focus on research models, examples, and tools for negotiating the challenges to advancing renewables by following justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) principles.

Are you a student? Learn why students should attend SOLAR 2025!

Who Attends? 
Over the last 53 years, thousands of professionals from public-, private-, and industrial-sector organizations have attended the ASES national solar conferences. Attendees include educators, contractors, developers, architects, engineers, installers, consultants, homeowners, policymakers, researchers, manufacturers, students, and solar enthusiasts.

SOLAR 2024 Plenary Speaker Spotlights 

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Sponsorship opportunities
Sponsorships and exhibit booths are now available for SOLAR 2024. Make your mark and get in front of your audience early and often. Visit ases.org/conference/sponsor for details, and contact sales@ases.org to sponsor.


Speaker Opportunities:
All SOLAR 2024 speakers have the opportunity to publish their work as an article or extended abstract in the SOLAR 2024 proceedings. The deadline to submit your draft paper (750 to 3,000 words) for the conference proceedings is June 7, 2024. We encourage you to contribute to our proceedings and help ASES advance solar research and scholarship!

We will be publishing the proceedings through Proceedings.com. The proceedings will be available for free (open access) electronically and will be marketed to libraries and bookstores. All of the papers will be assigned DOIs. For peer review, we use a double-blind process for reviewing papers in which the reviewers and authors do not know one another’s names. Reviewers indicate that they accept a paper, reject it, or would consider it with revisions.


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