Featured in Solar square off – 09-2016

Finding fault

Black sheep: latent hazard from supposedly direct-burial cables uncovered in the field last year proved another example of less-than-optimum practices and service carried out in the PV industry.
By
Mirco Sieg

When insulation faults began to multiply at a solar farm at the end of 2015, an independent expert discovered degraded buried cables. Although the manufacturer identified the cables as direct-burial, they obviously were not up to the task. The fault initially posed a serious problem for the operational safety of the park. But the installer …

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