Featured in Empowered with PV – 12-2017

Building the benchmark

pv magazine test: The new pv magazine test took off as expected, and many manufacturers have sent their modules to be tested. George Touloupas, Director of Technology and Quality at CEA, takes us through the latest results, and the new improved grading system.

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22 Dec 2017

Testing equipment at Gsolar’s laboratory in Xi’an, China, where solar modules are put through their paces in pv magazine test.

The first results from the new pv magazine test were presented in the September issue, together with the detailed methodology and explanation of the letter grade system. Our initial design was to assign letter grades to the results, five in total, and the intention was to set the grade limits in such a way as to …

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