Early Career Engineer Profile: Silvana Ovaitt

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Abstract

Slide highlighting the outstanding early career engineer from NREL, Dr. Silvana Ovaitt, recognized for her work in clean energy through field performance and reliability of solar panels, and their sustainability and circular economy assessment. Silvana is involved in various outreach activities, including serving as the NREL lead for the International Energy Agency Task 13 on field performance and reliability, organizing conferences like the bifiPV Workshop (last 5 years) and the 2nd PV Circular Economy Workshop, Women in PV Chair for IEEE PVSC for two years, offering open-source tutorials on PV and Python, and leading the Hands-On PV Experience Workshop at NREL, which offers PhD students a full week of immersive learning and laboratory fabrication of solar technologies.
Original languageAmerican English
PublisherNational Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
StatePublished - 2024

Publication series

NamePresented at the Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering 2024 Symposium, 11-14 September 2024, Irvine, California

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/PO-5K00-91080

Keywords

  • bifacial
  • circular economy
  • clean energy
  • early career
  • field
  • performance
  • photovoltaics
  • reliability
  • researcher
  • solar panels
  • sustainability

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