Once considered isolated incidents, spontaneous glass breakages in solar modules are becoming more frequent, highlighting the limits of some manufacturing choices and the need for closer quality ...

According to Wood Mackenzie's poll of top-performing global solar module manufacturers for the first half of 2025, all non-Chinese companies within the top 10 remained profitable while the group ...

‘These technologies enter the market without proper qualification,’ Gebhardt says. Image: Fraunhofer ISE This interview appears alongside others on module reliability in the latest edition of our ...

Kiwa PVEL’s Tristan Erion-Lorico told delegates at PV ModuleTech Europe this week that test failure rates for module breakage are ‘off the charts’. Image: PV Tech Industry experts gathered in Málaga, ...

U.S.-based solar panel backsheet manufacturer Endurans Solar has attained the IEC 62788-2-1:2023 certification for its new D15T transparent backsheet product, as part of the full D15-series safety ...

Bangladesh has inaugurated a testing laboratory to ensure quality and establish standards for both domestically produced and imported solar panels. The facility has been set up at the headquarters of ...

Ascent Solar Technologies, a U.S. manufacturer of copper indium gallium-selenide (CIGS) thin-film PV products, announced it shipped modules for testing to an ocean technology company and a power ...

Nextracker, a solar technology platform provider, and T1 Energy, an advanced manufacturer of solar modules, announced a strategic framework agreement to use Nextracker’s patented steel module frame ...

If you stop to think about it, it’s a marvel that we can harness energy from the sun. But we do, thanks to solar panels equipped with photovoltaic cells that convert sunlight to electricity. That’s no ...

Meyer Burger, the beleaguered Swiss solar panel manufacturer that filed bankruptcy earlier this year, announced today that it will not attempt to restart after failing to find an investor. The ...

Abstract: Every year Kiwa PVEL’s Photovoltaic (PV) Module Reliability Scorecard highlights the technical advancements and limitations of commercially available solar modules. Modules included in the ...