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Article History
Received: 2 June 2025
Accepted: 4 November 2025
First Online: 23 December 2025
Competing interests
: We declare employment-based competing interests for the following: A.K. is the President of AGC Business Development Americas; AGC is a glass, materials and chemical manufacturer. C.C. is the Chief Scientist at Oxford PV, a perovskite PV solar technology company. Y.C. is Vice President of Technology for Trina Solar, a PV and energy company. A.F. is the Chief Technology Officer of SOLARWATT, a full-service provider of integrated solar systems. S.G. is Vice President of Renewable Energies and Strategic Partnerships for VON ARDENNE GmbH, a company that manufactures vacuum coating systems and processes for industrial applications. M.G. is the Chief Technology Officer at First Solar, a producer of thin-film PV systems. E.H. is a senior consultant at Swiss RE, a commercial insurance provider. B.H. is the Head of Advanced Research at First Solar. J.J. is CEO and co-founder of Swift Solar, a US company focused on perovskite tandem solar technology. S.J. is R&D manager of the North American Thin Film Technology Team at NSG Group, a manufacturer of glass and glazing products. I.K. is Director and Principal Analyst at RTS Corporation, which is a PV industry and marketing consulting company. M. Kulkarni is Chairman and CEO of Renaissance Solar and Electronic Materials, a solar crystal growth and wafer manufacturing company. D. Merfeld is the Global Chief Technology Officer for Hanwha Qcells, a company focused on energy solutions from solar cells to power plants. N.K. is an employee of the Sustainable Management Initiatives Group at AGC. S.N. is with JERA Americas, an energy infrastructure company focused on low-carbon systems. J.P. is Vice President of Business Development at NexWafe, a company focused on next-generation PV wafer production. G.R. is co-founder and technical director at OFGEN, a distributed renewable energy company in Africa. D.R. is VP Technology Strategy of Maxeon Solar Technologies, a business focused on high-efficiency solar panels. R. Sinton is President and Senior Scientist of Sinton Instruments with an equity stake. Sinton Instruments manufactures test and measurement equipment for R&D and manufacturing in the PV industry. K. Soni is the Technology Assessment Director, Exploratory Markets and Technologies at Corning, Inc., which is a materials and manufacturing company focused on glass and ceramics. D.S. is the CEO of NexWafe. K.W. was formerly a Project Manager at bifa Umweltinstitut GmbH, which is an environmental research, development and consulting institute.