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Under stress

PV module certifications: Certifications are no guarantee that a product is of high quality. But failures in the field can get far more expensive than stress tests, comment Dricus de Rooij and Niclas Weimar, editors of Sinovoltaics.com

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pv magazine

04 Apr 2013

In the photovoltaics industry, certifications for solar modules have become both market entry barriers as well as a primary light tower of trust in quality among distributors, installers and private consumers – all anxious to diminish or exclude defects and performance failures of their precious and cost-intensive PV modules. The most straightforward way to determine …

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