pv magazine Webinar | Mitigating risk in solar projects: The power of a reliable bill of materials

Every material that goes into a PV module, or any other system component, needs to be well understood to ensure its long-term performance.

The wrong choice anywhere in a solar project’s bill of materials can have serious consequences for project performance and energy yield. Common failure modes resulting from inadequate material selection include delamination, corrosion, backsheet degradation, encapsulant yellowing, solar cell cracking, potential-induced degradation, bypass diode failure, glass breakage, and others that can ultimately affect the performance, reliability, and profitability of a project.

In this pv magazine Webinar, we examine how suppliers and stakeholders can actively mitigate these risks. Selecting durable materials, conducting rigorous reliability testing, and actively participating in the material selection process are critical. This webinar will explore how specific material shortcomings contribute to failure mechanisms and why thoughtful material selection is vital to achieving efficient, long-lasting PV modules.

Guy Beaucarne, research and development fellow at Dow, and Yuyan Li, Application Technology Leader for Photovoltaics at Dow, will take us through criteria for selecting durable, high quality materials, how different types of reliability testing can inform these, and other considerations for best practice in materials selection.

Webinar content:
• Importance of materials selection in PV modules and components
• Common failure modes
• Materials selection and testing
• Best practice in materials selection
• Q&A

Questions can be submitted beforehand in the comments window when registering or in the chat during the live webinar. Mark Hutchins, magazine director at pv magazine, will be the moderator of this webinar.

Registration for this pv magazine Webinar is free of charge.