Workshop 2025

April 29th – 30th 2025

DTU Risø Campus, Denmark

OBJECTIVES:

Mechanical reliability of PV-Modules, Reliability of LIGHTWEIGHT modules and field inspection.

Technical University of Denmark and the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE (Germany) proudly invite you to the 2025 SOPHIA Workshop. After its astounding success in Hasselt, Belgium in 2024 we are happy to announce the 15th edition of the SOPHIA series will be taking place in Risø, Denmark.

The workshop will be in person and feature reliability topics of several recent developments in PV-Module technology.

The main topics of the upcoming workshop will be:

• Field experience of failure modes and in-field analytics
• Glass breakage and mechanical module stability
• Lightweight PV modules and related testing approaches
• Modelling approaches