Featured in Fast track to high power – 05-2021

pv magazine test: Three years in operation

The pv magazine test array in Xi’an, China, is being dismantled and upgraded this month. CEA director of technology and quality George Touloupas, senior technology and quality manager Huatian Xu, and Ryan Li, junior engineer for technology and quality, have taken the opportunity to analyze three years of performance data, in addition to running modules from the array through another series of lab measurements.

The first 13 module samples were installed at the pv magazine outdoor test site on the rooftop of our partner Gsola’s facility in Xi’an, China, back in May 2018, and the first results were published in the September issue of that year. Over the intervening three years, a total of 23 different samples from various …

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