Investors would like to be confident that a PV plant will work as promised before investing large sums of money. Data showing that PV modules can withstand thousands of hours of accelerated testing are a comfort, but are not sufficient to characterize the economic useful life (EUL) of the whole PV system. An inability to be confident of every aspect of the system can motivate less favorable contract terms. In the end, a winning partnership is obtained when a carefully engineered, durable design is married with a robust quality management system and the marriage is extended across all parts of the value chain. However, this marriage is challenging because of the conventional cultural divide between design engineers and quality management specialists. International standards are being developed to facilitate this partnership and include technology-specific requirements in the quality management systems used for component manufacture and system design, construction and operation.
KURTZ Sarah;
RAMU Govind;
CORNELL Robert;
LOKANATH Sumanth;
HSI Edward;
SAMPLE Tony;
YAMAMICHI Masaaki;
KELLY George;
SPOONER Ted;
PREVITALI Jonathan;
WOHLGEMUTH John;
2018-11-23
INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS
JRC105725
0160-8371 (online),
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8366006,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC105725,
10.1109/PVSC.2017.8366006 (online),
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