Impartial testing lab Kiwa PVEL in the present day publishes its tenth version of the “PV Module Reliability Scorecard” report. The scorecard supplies the photo voltaic business with a complete useful resource of testing insights gained from Kiwa PVEL’s Product Qualification Program (PQP), a set of reliability and efficiency exams that analyze modules throughout a variety of circumstances, from temperature and humidity results in thermal biking and damp warmth to evaluating the impacts of mechanical stress and hail.
On this tenth version, Kiwa PVEL names a report of 53 producers and 388 mannequin sorts as “High Performers” in a number of exams, with eight producers named as High Performers in all classes. Related updates to this 12 months’s scorecard embrace:
- A brand new High Performer class for hail, highlighting modules that didn’t expertise glass breakage with bigger than 40-mm hail.
- The next bar for LID+LETID and PAN High Performers, with a raised threshold for High Performer qualification as applied sciences have improved.
- Higher recognition of producers which might be High Performers in a number of classes.
- Key takeaways on the impacts of varied cell applied sciences and module designs.
- The primary deep dive into Kiwa PVEL’s Incidence Angle Modifier (IAM) take a look at outcomes.
“Our 2024 Scorecard showcases robust outcomes throughout a various group of photo voltaic module producers, which displays the excellence and progress we’ve got noticed in PV manufacturing in recent times,” stated Kevin Gibson, managing director of Kiwa PVEL. “For over a decade, we’ve examined assumptions about photo voltaic module reliability and efficiency whereas persevering with to refine our methodology because the business continues to innovate with new applied sciences and module designs. We’re proud that we’re nonetheless setting a excessive bar for producers and offering downstream patrons with the essential data they should make educated procurement selections.”
The complete listing of High Performers is accessible on the location as a searchable database, the place outcomes will be filtered by PQP take a look at, producer identify, module sort, cell expertise and extra.
“Whereas we applaud the advances in manufacturing and the variety of High Performers listed, we remind patrons to stay vigilant,” stated Tristan Erion-Lorico, VP of gross sales and advertising at Kiwa PVEL. “We encourage them to discover every web page of the scorecard to raised perceive the vary of take a look at outcomes that we’re seeing daily at Kiwa PVEL’s labs.”
To be eligible for the 2024 Scorecard, producers will need to have accomplished the PQP pattern manufacturing manufacturing unit witness after October 1, 2022, and submitted at the least two factory-witnessed PV module samples to all PQP reliability exams, as per Kiwa PVEL’s BOM take a look at necessities.
Information merchandise from Kiwa PVEL
