On Monday 14 September, the global PV community gathers in Rotterdam for EU PVSEC 2026. Its scientific opening plenary will not be about new cell efficiency records but rather focused on PV in the Energy System. One of the three opening talks will feature Jef Poortmans of imec and is titled “AI for PV and PV for AI: Linking Nanoscale to TeraWatt(h)”. In a series of posts, we, at Awendio Solaris, propose to review the timely connection between solar innovation and the infrastr