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Diligence is due, standards are needed

pv magazine’s Quality Roundtable at Solar Power International this year covered everything from backsheet failures to faulty connectors causing fires at PV arrays. But in the end, it all comes down to the same thing: a need for better standards and due diligence from a wide range of parties.

By

Christian Roselund

12 Nov 2019

Image: Shoals Technologies

Walmart suing Tesla over several fires on the rooftops of its stores has cast a long shadow over the U.S. solar industry. Through wide coverage in the mainstream news, this story hit populations that receive little credible information about solar. This means that in contrast to the very low overall rate of fires at solar …

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