Featured in Embracing change – 02-2024

Long-lived PV

The opening session of the pv magazine Roundtables Europe event, in December 2023, addressed the issue of solar in harsh environments, with a particular focus on floating PV installations moving out to sea. Peijun Shen, senior manager for product marketing at Longi Solar, shared details of the company’s testing-led approach to ensuring long-term reliability in any environment. After the event, Mark Hutchins caught up with Shen to discuss the broader landscape for module reliability in 2024.
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Peijun Shen, left, senior manager for product marketing at Longi Solar, speaks to Mark Hutchins during pv magazine’s Roundtables Europe event. | Photo: pv magazine/Stefanie Loos

 pv magazine: What do you see as the most important recent developments in PV module reliability?Peijun Shen: The whole industry is now switching to [negatively-doped] n-type technologies. And this means that the pattern of reliability and risks is different than before. If you go back five years to when passivated emitter rear cell (PERC) technology …

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