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th IEEE PHOTOVOLTAIC SPECIALISTS CONFERENCE
TECHNICAL AREA OVERVIEWS
AREA 10 OVERVIEW
RELIABILITY OF PV
Chair
Sarah Kurtz, NREL, USA
Co-Chairs
Tony Sample, JRC, European
Commission
Wei Zhou, Trina Solar, China
Sub-Areas & Chairs
10.1:
Field Experience -- Jeff
Newmiller, BEW Engineering,
Yuzuru Ueda, Tokyo Institute of
Technology
10.2:
Correlation of Accelerated Testing and Field
Performance -- John Wohlgemuth, NREL
10.3:
Manufacturing Quality Assurance -- Masaaki
Yamamichi, AIST
10.4:
PV Safety Issues - Joerg Althaus, TÜV Rheinland
10.5:
Cell Level Reliability Issues - Allan Ward, First
Solar, Kent Whitfield, Solaria
10.6:
Reliability Techniques for Application to PV - Carole
Graas, Colorado School of Mines, Glenn Alers, University
of California, Santa Cruz, Vivek Gade, Jabil
As the PV industry has grown, it has become increasingly
critical to have confidence in the long-term performance
of the GWs of PV, representing billions of dollars or euros
investment. This topic cuts across all technologies and
throughout the supply chain. Topics especially critical
to the success of the PV industry include: an up-to-date
understanding of what is being observed for deployed
products, the physics behind observed degradation/
failure modes, and the quantitative correlation between
accelerated test results and outcomes seen in the field
as a function of climate and installation in order to move
toward statistical service life predictions. Submissions are
invited for all types of PV technologies.
This area will host joint sessions with other Areas,
including Areas 8, 9, and 11. Authors may choose to
submit to the area of their choice; abstracts that are
relevant to two areas will be reviewed by both areas. If
appropriate abstracts are received, a joint session with the
Velocity forum will be included: “Demonstrating Reliability
to Satisfy the Investor/Customer/Insurance company.”
