In January 2024, the Danish Institute for Human Rights partnered with Green Power Denmark to launch the Solar Energy and Human Rights Project. This initiative builds the capacity of Danish companies within the solar sector, human rights experts and rightsholders as well as peer learning via workshops co-facilitated with Ethical Trade Denmark. The project aims to facilitate the sharing of dilemmas, best practices, and experiences among stakeholders, thereby encouraging improvements at company level and collective action. During the early stages of the project, individual interviews were conducted with the participating Danish companies and sector stakeholders to understand current practice, challenges and capacity needs related to human rights across the solar value chain. Key issues of concern were similar across the 16 companies, as were requests for guidance on building company capacity, specifically embedding human rights due diligence in practice. The interviews revealed significant differences in maturity levels of human rights due diligence across the companies, but common situations of quick growth of business activities and steep learning curves on responsible business conduct issues. This guide, informed by desktop research, interviews and workshops, aims to both outline the current state of play and provide information and practical recommendations to support responsible business conduct efforts by companies and the solar sector more broadly. The report is structured into three chapters: 1. Overview of human rights issues in the solar energy sector: This section outlines salient sector-wide human rights issues at each step of the value chain. 2. Deep dive into critical human rights issues and action for the Danish solar energy sector: This section includes a deep dive into critical issues in the solar energy value chain and provides recommendations for mitigating these adverse impacts. It focuses on the types of impacts that companies in the sector are most likely to encounter in their activities in Denmark and Europe and throughout their value chains. 3. Future directions for the Danish solar sector: The final section offers strategies for advancing the respect for human rights in the Danish solar sector.