11 NOVEMBER 2020
PV modules are being sold with ever longer warranties, but when modules underperform or fail, making claims on those warranties is rarely straightforward. So are the warranties worth the paper they’re written on? Where does this leave installers? And how can this liability be mitigated?
These were the questions at the heart of pv magazine’s Insight on Quality, hosted last week as part of the All-Energy Australia 2020 digital conference.
The event featured an unparalleled team of technologists and market participants including Nigel Morris of Solar Analytics; George Touloupas from Clean Energy Associates; PV Lab Australia’s Michelle McCann; UNSW’s Alison Ciesla; Richard Qian from Longi Solar of Eric Ast, Stäubli Electrical Connectors; Ben Macias from Shoals Technologies Group; Durmus Yildiz, from Baywa r.e. Solar Systems; Ariel Re’s Jan Napiorkowski; and finally Geoff Bragg from Sunman Solar Pty Ltd. What resulted was an in-depth look at PV module degradation, how different stakeholders are tackling it and it can be mitigated.