CTO of Arctech Solar, researcher, convener of International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) TC82 WG7, the first winner of the Chinese photovoltaic field of the IEC1906 Award, winnerof the 29th International Photovoltaic Science and Engineering Conference (PVSEC-29) Young Scientist Award, member of China Photovoltaic Society, tutor for postgraduates of Harbin Institute of Technology (Weihai), part-time researcher.

Since December 2014, he has been the chief technical officer of Arctech Solar, and is fully responsible for research and development of Arctech Solar. The research and development of the horizontal single axis tracker system is the first in the world to introduce the concept of backup design and artificial intelligence, relying on innovative technologies in control, transmission and structure, it has more than 10 invention patents, while greatly reducing costs, it has greatly improved the reliability of the tracking system, bring a higher return on investment for solar power plant. At the same time, the multi-mode control technology makes smart solar power plants a reality.

As a member of international standards organizations such as the International Electrotechnical Organization (IEC), on behalf of the national authority, he has presided over and participated in the drafting of several international and Chinese solar tracker related standards, including IEC62187, IEC63104 and other standards. In 2018, he became the convener of the seventh working group in the photovoltaic field, holds a number of solar invention patents, has published a number of papers in photovoltaic professional journals and presided over the Ministry of Science and Technology Innovation Fund for Small and Medium-sized Innovation Enterprises, Shanghai Science and Technology Project

Represented China in the PVQAT working group and served as the leader of Tasks 9 and 12, focusing on the long-term stability of solar photovoltaic technology. Participated in the compilation of "Solar Photovoltaic Power Generation Application Technology" and "Solar Photovoltaic Technology and Application" and published papers in international conferences and solar professional journals.

Dr. Joshua Stein is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories where he has led R&D projects for the past 17 years. His current research interests include novel PV module and system designs and materials, characterization methods, PV performance models and reliability. He represents the US as a member of the International Energy Agency (IEA) PVPS Task 13 on PV Performance and Reliability. In 2010, he founded of the PV Performance Modeling Collaborative (PVPMC) and has organized nine international workshops on modeling and PV technologies. Previously, he contributed to advances in nuclear waste disposal, underground storage of petroleum products and fundamental studies on the hydrology of the oceanic crust. He has authored more than 150 publications. Dr. Stein received his Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Boris Farnung joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in 2008. He is head of group PV Power Plants and over the years has gained extensive experience in quality assurance on both the module and the system level from projects worldwide.

He is operating agent of the IEA PVPS Task 13 - Performance and Reliability of Photovoltaic Systems.
His key competences and fields of activity are
·1.Quality assurance and bankability support for utility scale PV Power Plants
·2.Module Testing and Characterization (Indoor and Outdoor)
·3.Research in PV Module and System Technology
·4.Expert Training and Scientific Studies

Market director of National Center of Supervision and Inspection on Solar Photovoltaic & Electrical Products Quality under China Building Material Test & Certification Group Co., Ltd. (CTC) ，Deputy secretary of CSTM / fc03 / tc22，Director of national technical standard innovation base (photovoltaic)，Member of Standardization Committee of Guangdong Solar Energy Association，Consultants of Home PV excellent brand evaluation committee

Participated in the compilation of international standard iec62805-1: 2017《Method for measuring photovoltaic (PV) glass—Part 1：Measurement of total haze and spectral distribution of haze》, in more than 10 national and industrial standards, 4 invention patents and 4 utility model patents. Participated in the《development and application of key parameters / performance testing methods and supporting equipment of BIPV modules》, which won the second prize of building materials science and technology of China Building Materials Federation

Research Interests:

·Photovoltaic Science and Technology
·Semiconductor Quantum Electronic Devices

Biographical Sketch:

1.Ph.D., Semiconductor Physics and Semiconductor Device, 1995, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2.Professor in Physics, 1999, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
3.Changjiang Chair Professor, 2000, Ministry of Education
4.Distinguished Young Scientist Award, 2001, National Science Foundation of China
5.Changjiang Innovation Group Leader, 2005, Ministry of Education
6.Director, 2009, Key Laboratory of Artificial Structures and Quantum Control, Ministry of Education
7.Chairman, 2011, Shanghai Solar Energy Society
8.Distinguished PV Scientist Award, 2016, International Photovoltaic Power Generation Conference & ExhibitionResearch Interests:

Monsoon Wang is the Product Director of LONGi Solar，in charge of product Planning, product marketing and technical Support work. Monsoon Wang joined LONGi solar since January 2017, he has more than 8 years working experience in PV industry and 5 years experience in semiconductor industry. Monsoon Wang is a specialist of high efficiency PV cell manufacturing, module failure analysis and PV system optimization, he also has attended the modification work of several important industry standard .

Pramod Krishnani is a recognized renewable industry subject matter expert specializing in power plant optimization and reporting; plant acceptance testing; performance guarantee contract management; performance field fault detection analytics; lean project management; and renewable industry international standards development. Prior to joining DNV GL, he was responsible for optimizing the financial and technical asset performance of sPower’s rapidly growing renewable energy portfolio. He has extensive experience in performance reporting and technical optimization of combined Solar and Wind fleet exceeding more than3.7 GW. Preceding to joining sPower, Pramod gained experience working as a Technical Services Manager – O&M for SunEdison’s Yielco Terraform Power and Performance and Operations Engineer for the O&M and EPC company, Belectric. He worked for the Sacramento Municipal Utility District holding various positions from Engineering Student Renewable Energy R&D Intern to Mechanical Engineering RE Tech in the Energy R&D Department; where he gained wide range of experience in numerous renewable energy technologies like Solar, Wind, Energy storage, Hydro Energy, Geothermal Energy, Biomass/Biogas and smart grid technologies along with demand response.

Apart from work experience, Pramod is an appointed expert of the International ElectroTechnical Commission (IEC), ASTM, NREL, DOE and SANDIA Solar PV Standards Committee. He has been a featured speaker and a technical writer for PV O&M conferences like IEEE PVSC, PVInsider, NREL and Sandia National Laboratory

Pramod earned his Master’s degree with a focus on Mechanical Engineering and specialization in Thermal & Fluid Systems at California State University, Sacramento. He earned his Bachelor and Associate degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Mumbai University, India

Present Position:Sr. Consultant for Solar APAC Consultant Unit, DNV GL Singapore. (in transition to DNV GL)

Achievements:

1. Certification of Outstanding Contribution at Sacramento Municipal Utility District Energy Research and Development Department, November 2011. 2. Solar Electric Power Association Scholarship Recipient, 2011 3. Featured Speaker, “Performance Testing for Acceptance” PV Insider 4th Utility Scale PV Plant Optimization, San Jose, California, 26 Sep 2013 4. Speaker, “Seeking Synergies: Data Modelling and Aerial Inspections” Sandia National Laboratory 2016 PV Lifecycle and Reliability Workshop, May 11, 2016 5. Speaker, “Key performance indicators & Investor/Off-taker compliance” NREL PV Reliability Workshop, Feb. 27, to March 1, 2018 6. Appointed Expert at International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), Technical Committee 82, WG-3 (Working Group 3), United States Technical Advisory Group and developed Solar Standards like IEC 61724-1,2,3, IEC 63019

Marcel Suri is an expert in solar power assessment and forecasting. He has received PhD in geography and is co-author of more than 100 scientific publications. Marcel Suri is one of authors of the decision support online system PVGIS, which contributed to development of photovoltaics in Europe. He managed a several R&D projects and is active in the definition and market implementation of approaches that are introducing better transparency and increased efficiency in solar industry. He is active in gridintegration studies related to solar photovoltaics.

Marcel Suri consults developers and operators of solar power plants, investors, banks, and governmental institutions. He is Managing Director of Solargis company, which provides solar and meteorological data and photovoltaic simulation software for planning, monitoring and forecasting of solar power.

Director of PV Module Technology Department of CGC, and accredited signatory of CGC PV laboratory in Jiaxing. With many years of technical work, he has experience in standard research, certification, supervision, testing, and technical service of PV module. He has participated in the compilation of many national standards, industry standards, technical specifications and enterprise standards, also participated as a key technical person in National Research Projects such as '863' projects and 'NQI' projects

Zhu Haidong is the current Executive Vice-President of Shanghai ANX Automation Technology and General Manager of Wuxi ANX Automation Technology, enjoying the medium professional title. He once worked as Battery R&D Department Manager and Branch General Manager in Wuxi Suntech Power and Millennium Software successively. Mr. Zhu is committed to developing and applying new battery technologies (Pluto, PREC, PERL, etc.), and studying and promoting power plant intelligentization and automation. He has published several papers in domestic and foreign journals, won the First Prize of National Scientific and Technological Progress Award when working at Wuxi Suntech Power as R&D Department Manager, and claimed many invention patents and utility model patents in power plant smart cleaning

Jefferson Bor, born in 1989, is employed as Project Manager at Fraunhofer ISE. He received his Master from the University of Freiburg, Germany and joined Fraunhofer ISE in 2014. He takes charge of project development and operation in the group of quality assurance for PV power plant. His current research area contains the PV power plant modelling and performance assessment from monitoring system.

Chen Siming, currently the Director Engineer of Guangdong HuaJu Testing Tech. Co., Ltd. She has engaged in testing and technical assessment of PV power plants for years.

She served as the key personnel for national 863 plan project, provincial R&D projects and provincial engineering center construction project. She participated in the standard work groups for over 20 national and industrial standards. She had more than 20 technical papers published in academic periodicals both in and abroad, one of which in include in SCI.

Zhang Guangqing is currently the head of the Energy Storage Technology Department and Energy Storage Customer Line of CGC. Since 2008, she has been engaged in research on standards and testing and certification technologies related to photovoltaics and energy storage. She has led and participated in the formulation of multiple standards and technical specifications, and has performed a number of domestic and international testing and certification projects for energy storage products and systems, battery supervision and power plant testing projects. As the core of the project, participated in the national key research and development plan topics in "smart grid technology and equipment" and "NQI" key special areas.

Fan Lei completed his Bachelor and Master of Control Theory and Engineering from Nanjing University of Science and Technology and has rich working experience in Communication, Power Automation and Renewable Energy domain including a global delegation. He has handled multiple positions across R&D, Project Engineering, Project Management, Business Development for Siemens Ltd. China. He has commissioned and led turnkey projects in DES EPC and is also responsible for software and business development including DSOP(Digital Solar Operation Platform) and DSDE (Digital Solar Diagnosis Engine) as cloud-based software products and solution service.