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Increased product failures leads Kiwa PVEL to update solar panel testing protocols

Solar panel testing lab Kiwa PVEL has updated its Product Qualification Program (PQP). The revisions address growing concern ...

Kiwa PVEL Releases Major Update to PV Module Product Qualification Program to Better Address Module Breakage

Kiwa PVEL, the independent lab for quality and reliability testing of solar photovoltaic (PV) modules, today announced a significant update to its photovoltaic (PV) module Product Qualification ...
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Kiwa PVEL updates module testing programme, aims to tackle glass breakage, frame failures and hail damage

Kiwa PVEL has updated its solar module Production Qualification Program to better assess the performance of solar PV modules.
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Solar module certification is broken. Here’s how to fix it

The solar industry has fought for decades to earn its reputation as the fastest, cheapest way to decarbonize the grid. But in 2025, as deployment accelerates and policy support wanes, the industry ...
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Next-generation solar modules could degrade faster than expected, new UNSW research warns

Researchers at Australia's UNSW have developed the world's first comprehensive map of ultraviolet radiation for solar modules ...
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Current UV tests overestimate TOPCon solar module degradation

In 2024, researchers at Fraunhofer ISE analyzed the stability of TOPCon, passivated emitter and rear cell (PERC), and heterojunction solar cells under UV irradiation and found that all three cell ...