Ensuring Quality of PV Modules

PV customers wish to have confidence in PV modules they purchase. Today, no test can quantify a module’s lifetime with confidence, but stress tests are routinely used to differentiate PV product designs. We suggest that the industry would be strengthened by using the wisdom of the community to develop a single set of tests that will help customers quantify confidence in PV products. This paper evaluates the need for quality assurance (QA) standards and suggests a path for creating these. Two types of standards are needed: 1) QA of the module design and 2) QA of the manufacturing process.

KURTZ Sarah;  WOHLGEMUTH John;  SAMPLE Tony;  YAMAMICHI Masaaki;  AMANO James;  HACKE Peter;  KEMPE Michael;  KONDO Michio;  DOI Takuya;  OTANI Kenji; 

2013-03-27

IEEE

JRC64906

978-1-4244-9966-3 (print),    978-1-4244-9965-6,   

0160-8371,   

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6186084&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D6186084,    https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC64906,   

10.1109/PVSC.2011.6186084,