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Matexcel Updated Its Photovoltaic Product Analysis Service for Research Use
Matexcel, a biotechnology company in material science, recently updated its Photovoltaic Product Analysis Service to assist scientists and researchers better with their projects. Products that use solar cells to transform light energy into electrical energy are referred to as photovoltaic products. In a broad sense, photovoltaic products refer to items like solar street lights, traffic lights, ...
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TÜV Rheinland PTL receives SRCC accreditation for solar thermal testing services
TÜV Rheinland PTL, North America’s largest solar and photovoltaic testing company, has received accreditation from the Solar Rating and Certification Corporation (SRCC) as a laboratory for the testing of solar thermal collectors. With that, TÜV Rheinland PTL is the second laboratory, after the Group’s Cologne-based Solar Testing Centre, which is holding this accreditation. With the ...
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Intertek Supports Increased Trade and Global Market Access for Solar Product Manufacturers
Intertek(LSE: ITRK), a leading provider of quality and safety solutions today said that ongoing development in solar power technologies will fast-track the demand for global industry standards as the company prepares to attend and provide expert commentary at the APEC Solar Technology and Conformance Initiative meetings held in San Francisco, California, from ...
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Detecting defects in solar cells
Solar panels, or photovoltaic (PV) modules, are being rapidly deployed across the world as costs fall and the need for sustainable, low-carbon energy grows. Being able to effectively characterise PV cells is a key factor in quality control during manufacturing and understanding their long-term behaviour. NPL researchers, Simon Hall, Matt Cashmore and John Blackburn, have developed a new ...
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PV Evolution Labs and GTM Research Introduce the PV Module Reliability Scorecard Program to Benchmark Manufacturers
North America’s premier PV module testing lab, PV Evolution Labs (PVEL), today announced it has partnered with GTM Research to introduce the PV Module Reliability Scorecard, a first of its kind benchmarking program to measure and compare PV module reliability across multiple manufacturers. This study is taking place at PVEL’s state-of-the-art PV ...
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ET Solar Multi-crystalline Module Demonstrated High Performance in PHOTON Tests
ET Solar Group Corp. ("ET Solar"), a leading solar one-stop solution provider, today announces that its multi-crystalline ET-P660240 module demonstrated high yield performance in the outdoor tests conducted by PHOTON Laboratory ("PHOTON Lab"). The ET-P660240 modules are multi-crystalline modules that have a maximum unit power output of 240 watts. They were introduced by ET Solar in 2010 and have ...
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DNV GL releases 2017 PV Module Reliability Scorecard
DNV GL, the world’s largest resource of independent energy experts and certification body, has released its third annual PV Module Reliability Scorecard report, presenting the most complete publicly-available comparison of PV module reliability test results. Although the dramatic module price drop of recent years has helped to accelerate PV industry growth, concerns over cost reduction at ...
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NREL Helps Establish New PV Quality Standards for Manufacturers
Working with partners around the world, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have completed five years of work toward helping establish an international quality standard for manufacturing photovoltaic (PV) modules. PV manufacturers will use the new standard to increase the level of confidence investors, utilities, and consumers have in solar ...
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NREL Releases Report Describing Guidelines for PV Manufacturer Quality Assurance
The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released an updated proposal that will establish an international quality standard for photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturing. The document is intended for immediate use by PV manufacturers when producing modules on an industrial scale so they can increase investor, utility, and consumer confidence in PV system performance. ...
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KYOCERA Solar Modules Achieve `Performance Leader` Rating in GTM Research`s Reliability Scorecard
KYOCERA is Only Manufacturer to Earn Highest Rating Across All PV Module Tests On August 25, Kyocera Corporation announced that Kyocera is the only solar module manufacture to rank as a Performance Leader in all six categories in independent testing by PV Evolution Labs, as reported in GTM Research’s July 2014 PV Module Reliability Scorecard. The report ranks performance of the 15 ...
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NREL’s Kurtz, Tegen Honored for Clean Energy Leadership
The U.S. Clean Energy Education & Empowerment (C3E) program has honored Sarah Kurtz and Suzanne Tegen of the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) for their leadership and achievement in the field of renewable energy. The C3E program, led by the Energy Department in collaboration with the Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy and the MIT Energy Initiative, ...
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PV Evolution Labs Introduces New Soiling Measurement System for Solar Photovoltaic Modules
North America’s premier PV module testing lab, PV Evolution Labs (PVEL), today introduced a new Soiling Station program for measurement of power and energy loss due to module soiling in the field. Soiling is the accumulation of dirt on PV modules, which can reduce annual energy output of a plant by up to 10% depending on the site location. Rather than guess about the level of soiling ...
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LDK Solar Modules Pass PID Test by TUV Rheinland and PV Lab
LDK Solar Co., Ltd. (NYSE: LDK) ("LDK Solar") a leading vertically integrated manufacturer of photovoltaic (PV) products, announces that LDK Solar modules have passed the potential-induced degradation (PID) tests performed at TUV Rheinland's and PV Lab's laboratories. In both tests LDK modules demonstrated a reduction in performance under test conditions of less than one percent, earning LDK ...
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Qatar expands bifacial PV tests as data shows 10% output gains
The Middle East state is building a commercial-scale bifacial testing facility and advancing soiling studies that will apply to many other desert regions. Interest in bifacial solar plants is soaring and operators are seeking more comprehensive testing of performance drivers to optimize investment decisions. Many U.S. PV operators are turning to bifacial plants to increase power yield amid ...
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Principal Solar Institute Launches Industry’s First Comprehensive Solar PV Module Rating System: Creates Standards, Elevates Industry
The Principal Solar Institute, an online reference center and resource guide for the commercial and utility scale solar market, today announced the introduction of the PSI PV Module Rating, the first-of-its kind approach that allows easy, unbiased, comprehensive analysis and comparison of photovoltaic (PV) modules. PSI Ratings are designed to allow solar consumers to make informed, intelligent ...
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ASTM E2848 - 11 standard test method for reporting photovoltaic non-concentrator system performance
Because there are a number of choices in this test method that depend on different applications and system configurations, it is the responsibility of the user of this test method to specify the details and protocol of an individual system power measurement prior to the beginning of a measurement. Unlike device-level measurements that report ...
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New Tests Reveal that BioSolar’s BioBacksheet Improves Solar Panel Efficiency and Power Output
High Thermal Conductivity of BioBacksheet Allows Solar Panels to Operate at a Lower Temperature and Increases Power Output SANTA CLARITA, Calif. - BioSolar, Inc. (OTCBB: BSRC), developer of a breakthrough technology to produce bio-based materials from renewable plant sources that reduce the cost of photovoltaic (PV) solar modules, reports that rigorous testing by an independent authority reveals ...
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Three months after opening, TÜV Rheinland’s solar test centre in Cologne is operating at full capacity
Three months after opening, TÜV Rheinland’s new solar test centre in Cologne has now reached full capacity. For solar module manufacturers, this means that test times have been roughly halved compared to the previous solar laboratory. The processing times for a full type approval and certification of crystalline silicon photovoltaic (PV) modules in accordance with IEC 61215, for example, takes ...
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Photovoltaic Module Standard Proposed by ASTM To Focus on Issues of Durability and Functional Service Life
Standards relating to the performance of photovoltaic (PV) modules have historically focused on initial qualification testing and not issues of durability and functional service life. Subcommittee E44.09 on Photovoltaic Electric Power Conversion is now working on a proposed new standard that will cover these long-term issues: ASTM WK25362, Practice for Photovoltaic Module Reliability Assessment. ...
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Quality standard of the network of excellence DERlab for outdoor tests allows reliable benchmarking of photovoltaic modules
At a workshop of the conference of the International Solar Energy Society in Kassel, Germany, leading research institutes from Europe and the USA adopted a new draft for an outdoor test standard for photovoltaic modules yesterday. Using this standard, the project partners of the Network of Excellence DERlab (Distributed Energy Resources Laboratory) internationally unify long-term measurements of ...
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