Instituto de Energia Solar - Universidad Politecnica de Madrid

Given today s climate challenges, it is hard to dispute the need to firmly back renewable energies as the basis of a new energetic model, including photovoltaic solar energy. PV is already beginning to play an important role into the worlds electricity mix, and has enormous growth potential in the coming years. The Universidad Politecnica de Madrid cemented its commitment to solar energy almost forty years ago with the founding of the Instituto de Energia Solar (IES-UPM), a center specifically devoted to research into the fundamentals and the practical application of photovoltaics. Since then, the IES-UPM has received international recognition for its research, thanks to our philosophy to combine a passion for PV solar energy, scientific rigor in the face technological problems, and strong ambition to have a strong impact on whichever research lines we pursue. At the IES-UPM we pledge to maintain this commitment to PV for the next forty years and beyond. We will continue to search...