2015 International PV Quality Assurance Task Force (PVQAT) Workshop

Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Chairs: Tony Sample and Masaaki Yamamichi

The 2015 International PV Quality Assurance Task Force (PVQAT) workshop was an extension of the 2015 PVMRW Session, but with a focus on the two IEC work items for climate specific rating and manufacturing quality management. The morning included technical presentations that showing the progress of PVQAT and discussions focused on the outstanding technical issues that remain. The afternoon allowed each Task Group time for individual breakout session discussions.

This event is part of the 2015 Photovoltaic Module Reliability Workshop, which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office.

Agenda

For a detailed schedule of the day's events, access the agenda.

Presentations

The presentations listed are available as Adobe Acrobat PDFs. Discussion notes are also available for the QMS discussion, the QMS Audit and QMS Rating discussion, and the PVQAT open discussion.

• Overview of PVQAT: Update and Perspectives—Sarah Kurtz, NREL
• Overview of IEC TS62941 Guideline for Manufacturing QA—Govind Ramu, SunPower
• An Independent Auditor's View on Manufacturing QMS—Ian Gregory, SolarBuyer
• Manufacturers' Point of View on Manufacturing QA—Xiaowu Yang, Trina Solar
• Climate-Specific Rating—Tony Sample (Chair), JRC
• Overview of IEC82/766/NP 62892-1 Climate-Specific Test—John Wohlgemuth, NREL
• Connecting the dots: Collaborating from factory to field to reduce long-term module quality risk for specific project locations—Jonathan M. Previtali, Wells Fargo Bank
• Orientation for the Breakout Session—Masaaki Yamamichi
• Audit of JIS8901 Certification—Yasunori Uchida, JET
• DNV GL Product Qualification Program—Jenya Meydbray, DNV GL
• TUV-Rheinland QMS Audit Program—Matthias Heinze, TUV Rheinland PTL

Update of PVQAT Task Groups

• TG1 Govind Ramu, SunPower
• TG2 Nick Bosco, NREL
• TG3 John Wohlgemuth, NREL
• TG4 Vivek Gade, Jabil
• TG5 David Miller, NREL
• TG12 Mike Van Iseghem, EDF

Posters

The posters listed are available as Adobe Acrobat PDFs.

• What is the US TAG and what is its function: the official IEC TC 82 description—Alex Mikonowicz
• Effect of QUV A with Thermal Cycling Exposure on PV Backsheets—Amy Lefebvre, Greg O'Brien, James D. Knapp, Bryan Douglas, Gunter Moeller, Dana Garcia
• Field Evaluation of Photovoltaic Modules and Systems—Antonia Sonia A. C. Diniz, Marcelo M. Viana, Cristiana B. Maia, Suellen C.S. Costa, Thiago A. Silverio, Marcio E. M. de Souza, Denio A. Cassini, Francisco H. A. F. Souza, Lawrence L. Kazmerski
• Investigation of c-Si Module Degradation and Recovery Effect under High Potential—Bengt Jaeckel, Marijo Cosic and Jürgen Arp
• Highly Durable Anti-Reflective Anti-Soiling Coating for PV Module Glass—Brenor Brophy, Sergiu C. Pop, Venkata Abbaraju, Ralf Schulze, Y. Sam Yang, Sina Maghsoodi, Peter Gonsalves
• Verification and Final Development of the IEC 62788-1-5 Encapsulation Size Change Test Round-Robin—David C. Miller, Jayesh G. Bokria, Xiaohong Gu, Christian C. Honeker, Naiara Murua, Nichole E. Nickel, Keiichiro Sakurai, Tsuyoshi Shioda, Govindasamy Tamizhmani, Ethan Wang, Shuying Yang, Toshio Yoshihara, and John H. Wohlgemuth
• System reliability aspects of currently available modules with atypical string length—Donald B. Warfield
• Utilization of Ultra-Intense UV Weathering Chambers for Rapid Acceleration of PV Component Testing—Doug Vermillion and Tatsuo Nakamura
• Moisture ingress into PV modules: long-term simulations and a new monitoring technique—Eleonora Annigoni, Federico Galliano, Marko Jankovec, Heng Yu Li, Laure-Emmanuelle PerretAebi, Christophe Ballif, Fanny Sculati-Meillaud
• Quality and Reliability: Sometimes the Customer Wants More—Gerhard Kleiss
• Prevention of PID with Ionomer film by reducing Sodium Ion Accumulation in Photovoltaic modules—Jane Kapur, Kate Stika, Craig Westphal, Sergiu C. Pop, Ralf Schulze, Xiaoguang Wang, Beihai Yuan, Andreas Meisel
• TETRA—Thermal Environment by Transient Response Analysis: Auto-Calorimetry Toward Material and Structure Evolution Studies in Concentrator Photovoltaic Cells— J.P.D. Cook, C.T. Li, J. Haysom, K. Hinzer, and H. Schriemer
• Rolling Reliability Test and Field Degradation Correlation Investigation in REC Solar—Jia Ying Ye, Teck Cheng Tan, REC Solar
• Financial Implications of Module Degradation Uncertainty for Utility-Scale Solar Facilities—Mark Reusser, Matthew Dorogi, Larry McClung
• Outdoor Stabilization of Thin-Film Photovoltaic Module Performance—Matevž Bokalič, Kristijan Brecl, Marko Topič
• The Limiting Effects of Temperature on the Performance of a Crystalline-SI Solar Array in Trinidad and Tobago's Climatic Conditions—Nia Thompson
• Prolonged Lifetime Performance of Meyer Burger's Hetero Junction Solar Modules—Ranier Grischke
• An Open Platform to Speed-up and Cost-down the PV Reliability R&D—Soo-Young Oh
• Depth Profiling of Chemical and Mechanical Degradation of PV Backsheets after Accelerated Laboratory Exposure under Simultaneous UV, Temperature and Moisture—Xiaohong Gu, Chiao-Chi Lin, Peter Krommenhoek, Stephanie Watson
• Test Sequence Development for Evaluation of Potential Induced Degradation on Thin Film Modules—Thomas Weber, Juliane Berghold, Floreian Heilmann, Margarete Roericht, Stefan Krauter, and Paul Grunow
• Reliability Test and Analysis of Silicone Sealant Used for Sealing and Bonding on PV Modules—Patrick Trippel
• Sequential and Weathering Module Testing and Comparison to Fielded Modules—W. Gambogi, J. Kopchick, T. Felder, S. MacMaster, A. Bradley, B. Hamzavytehrany, C.-F. Wang, H. Hu, Y. Heta, and T. J. Trout
• Reduce Investor's Risk by Testing and Modeling Critical Failure Modes— Mike Van Iseghem, Benoît Braisaz, Khalid Radouane