Photovoltaic Innovation Network nserc
The Photovoltaic Innovation Network is a partnership between the research community, industry, government, funding agencies and advocacy groups to foster and accelerate the widespread adoption of photovoltaics as a renewable energy resource in Canada

Our purpose is to provide a networking ground between industry members and researchers in the photovoltaic's community across nation.

The network aims to provide a knowledge and technology base that will help Canada compete globally in this rapidly growing sector. It will help develop new intellectual property in PV for adoption by Canadian industry to supply strong domestic demand currently met by foreign companies.

Our collaborative and multi-disciplinary research program has the specific objectives of increasing the device conversion efficiency and/or reducing the device cost to make large scale PV deployment more competitive against electricity generation from fossil fuels.



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Exciting News! The NSERC Photovoltaic Innovation Network invites you to join us in Montreal and Ottawa during the week of May 13 through 18, 2012 - for six interesting days filled with scientific presentations, discussions, posters, tours, and networking opportunities with the photovoltaics community.  

May 13 is our private Annual Network Meeting exclusively for our funded internal Network members and students in Montreal, Quebec. 

 

May 14, and 15 is Next Generation Solar 2012 - Photovoltaics Canada - Our Third National website promo.pngScientific Conference at the Coeur des Sciences at L'Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) .  It is open to everyone and you can register online now at http://www.nextgenerationsolar.ca .  Call for Abstracts ends April 22!   Following the conference, there will be tours of the new solar laboratory and facilities at Concordia University.

 

May 16, 17 and 18 is our First Canadian Photovoltaics Graduate School which aims to attract graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from across Canada to take part in an intensive three-day training event at the University of Ottawa.  

 

Click on the Next Generation Solar logo above to learn more about all events and to register!  See the "Other Events" tab.  Registration closes May 8, 2012...

 

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Brand New Network BLOG...We invite you to follow our new blog at the following channel [http://nsercpvin.wordpress.com] and share your thoughts!  Erik Janssen Erik - website.JPG is our resident blogger and we also plan to invite guest bloggers to periodically contribute their various perspectives on timely solar ideas and issues.

Have you seen our YouTube Channel yet?!...We have close to 20 public videos for you to learn more about solar industry developments, policy, financing (government incentives), international perspectives, and the exchange experiences of our Network students.  Check us out on the tube and subscribe at [http://www.youtube.com/pvinnovation].

Stories From Our Highly Qualified Personnel (HQP).... We recently held a series of Network events in Ottawa:  our Annual Network Meeting, Scientific Conference, and Industry Workshop. It was an exciting and educational experience that included scientific presentations, discussions, posters, tours, and networking opportunities within the photovoltaics community. Many of our HQP attended the events and were asked to share their experiences, including answers to three burning questions they had. Click on their pictures below to see what some of them have to say!

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