Explore the two-day agenda for Solar Manufacturing USA 2026, covering production volumes, cell innovation, factory benchmarking, upstream manufacturing, production-line ownership, factory build-out, operating economics and the roadmap to 100 GW by 2035.
The opening session sets the scene for Solar Manufacturing USA 2026, combining a market-led overview of the domestic manufacturing base from conference Chair Finlay Colville with a C-level industry perspective on the technologies, strategic investments and execution realities driving U.S. solar production.
This session examines how solar cell manufacturing in the U.S. can be built around differentiation and innovation, focusing on the cell architectures, production equipment and technology roadmaps defining the sector.
This session features leading U.S. solar manufacturers sharing production-line metrics on yield, quality and performance, alongside independent testing, factory audits and due-diligence processes that help validate industry benchmarks.
This session examines the upstream transition unfolding today as U.S. solar manufacturing moves from ambition to execution, with presentations from the companies leading new domestic ingot and wafer production.
Extending the morning focus on cell innovation, this session examines how new U.S. solar cell lines are being specified to enable in-house ownership of technology choice, process-flow customization and Intellectual Property.
This session explores the capital build-out now underway across U.S. solar manufacturing, with a focus on the companies designing, equipping and delivering the factories and production lines behind new domestic capacity.
This session explores the OPEX side of U.S. solar manufacturing, with a focus on materials supply, cost control and the factory-level economics that will determine long-term viability.
Technology selection for the first wave of new U.S. solar production lines is already spanning a broad range of options, including PERC, TOPCon and heterojunction. This session explores how the sector may evolve from today’s mixed manufacturing landscape toward higher-performing cell structures such as back-contact and tandem architectures, including perovskites.
This closing session uses the current U.S. manufacturing base as the springboard for defining a pathway to 100 GW by 2035. Through industry-led presentations and debate, the session asks how the sector gets there, what is still missing, and how today’s technologies, investments and manufacturing footprint can form the basis of a credible long-term roadmap.