February 10, 2016
Water Sourcing and Opportunities for Solar
Jeremy Theil, PhD
Director, Materials Development, Quantumscape
R&D Manager, First Solar
Senior Member of the IEEE
Treasurer, Silicon Valley Photovoltaic Society(SVPVS)
February 17, 2016
Power Quality Impacts and Mitigation of Distributed Solar Power
Ric Austria
Principal, Pterra Consulting
April 19, 2016 
Materials Studies of New High Efficiency Solar Absorbers
Mike Toney, Ph.D.
SLAC National Lab
May 11, 2016
Trends in the Solar PV Market: 2015 PV Industry Shipments
Paula Mints
SPV Market Research
June 15, 2016 
Peak Power Tracking Control for Photovoltaic Array
Ping Hsu, Ph.D.
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
San Jose State University
September 21, 2016
Metal-halide perovskites: The next evolution in photovoltaics
Colin Bailie, Ph.D.
Iris PV
Palo Alto, CA
October 12, 2016 
What the 2016 elections have in store for California’s solar energy market
Bernadette Del Chiaro
CalSEIA
Sacramento, CA
November 9, 2016
How did silicon solar cells get so cheap?
Martin Green
UNSW
Kensington, NSW, Australia