Featured in Electric avenues – 09-2017

The new module test

Module reliability: pv magazine’s new module test is kicking off. The first candidate is Jolywood with its bifacial n-Pert module. The test is designed to help investors in their module purchasing process, while at the same time allowing manufacturers to spot problems and improve their production processes.

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Michael Fuhs

05 Sep 2017

Different modules are carefully stored prior to testing at Gsolar’s laboratory in Xi’an, China.

Solar modules are very special products. Compared to other high-tech products, their design is not excessively complicated, and it is not for nothing that they are commodity products, which are produced in large quantities under high price pressure. Nevertheless, it is extremely difficult for investors to separate the wheat from the chaff, to distinguish reliable …

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