• Advertise
  • Subscribe
  • Contact Us
Logo
 
  • News
    • All headlines
    • Products
      • PV Modules
      • Mounting
      • Inverters / eBOS
      • +Storage
      • Wire management
      • Trackers
      • O&M
    • Project news
      • Projects of the Year
      • C&I
    • Original features
  • Sales & Design
  • Buyer’s Guide
    • Solar Inverter Buyer’s Guide 2025
    • Ground-Mount BOS Buyer’s Guide 2025
    • Rooftop Solar BOS Buyer’s Guide 2025
    • Energy Storage System Buyer’s Guide 2025
    • Solar PV Module Buyer’s Guide 2023
  • Videos
    • The Pitch
    • Power Forward! w/ BayWa r.e.
    • 60 Seconds in the Sunlight
  • Webinars
  • Events
  • Special Reports
    • Projects of the Year
    • EVERVOLT Case Studies | How Panasonic installers solved six customer dilemmas
  • Subscribe
    • Read the Digital Edition
    • Advertising
    • Project of the Year Form

PVEL

Featured PVEL-module-failures
Takeaways from the Kiwa PVEL 2024 PV Module Reliability Scorecard

A record number of PV modules have earned Top Performer status according to the 2024 edition of the Kiwa PVEL PV Module Reliability Scorecar...

June 5, 2024
News import-tariff-stamp
How solar module manufacturers can avoid AD/CVD tariffs

By Max Macpherson, PVEL, and Alex Barrows, Exawatt/CRU Group With the waiver of AD/CVD circumvention tariffs on SE Asian cells and modules t...

January 18, 2024
News PVEL logo
PVEL updates solar PV module quality testing

PV Evolution Labs (PVEL), the renowned independent test lab for the downstream solar industry and member of the Kiwa Group, has upgraded the...

November 13, 2023
Featured PV-Market-Guide-4x6-ratio-images-1
N-type vs. P-type: Insight from PVEL solar module reliability testing

This is an excerpt from the Q2 2023 issue of Solar Builder magazine, written by Tristan Erion-Lorico is VP of sales and marketing for PV Evo...

June 12, 2023
News PVEL 2023 Scorecard
Record number of modules named Top Performers in PVEL’s Module...

PVEL’s 2023 PV Module Reliability Scorecard PV Evolution Labs (PVEL), an independent test lab for the downstream solar industry, publi...

May 24, 2023
News Frontside-Discoloration
Underperformance case study: Assessing module power loss using electroluminescence imaging

When solar projects have underperformance issues, deploying the correct field service solution is critical in addressing the problem as quic...

October 24, 2022
PV Modules Factory-Production-Line-26-001
The Pitch | What Makes a Quality Solar Module?

Selecting an underperforming solar module can sink the performance and economic value of a solar project. Today on The Pitch, we get a crash...

May 23, 2022
News 2021-PVEL-PV-Module-Reliability-Scorecard-Media-Photo
12 manufacturers score Top Performing solar modules in PVEL’s 2022...

Solar module news this year has been mostly bad, so how about some good news: A record 12 manufacturers had at least one Top Performing modu...

May 17, 2022
News PVEL-QE-Labs-Drone-Image
PV Evolution Labs adds drone inspection for U.S. solar sites...

PVEL QE-Labs Drone EL Testing PV Evolution Labs (PVEL) and Quantified Energy Labs Pte. Ltd. (QE-Labs) signed an exclusive agreement to provi...

March 30, 2022
News am-solar-prize
This steel module frame could increase durability of large format...

The global solar industry has made tremendous gains in the last decade, with exponential market growth driven by a 90% reduction in panel co...

December 20, 2021
News OpenSolar 3D capture
PVEL, NREL validate accuracy of OpenSolar’s solar design tool

Third-party researchers PV Evolution Labs (PVEL) and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) put OpenSolar, a free solar design and sale...

November 8, 2021
News Hail strikes PV module
PVEL debuts new hail test for PV modules, moves HQ...

PV Evolution Labs (PVEL) has released a new hail test for its PV Module Product Qualification Program with future testing to occur at PVEL&r...

October 12, 2021
Inverters and eBOS PVEL Inverter Testing Power Measurement
PVEL to crowdsource solar inverter performance testing

A PVEL lab technician notes power measurements of a solar inverter Independent PV and storage test lab PV Evolution Labs (PVEL) is now partn...

September 30, 2021
PV Modules PVEL-module-failures
Consider the source part 3: PV failures on the rise

Solar PV panels — the symbol of the industry — are a bit of Rorschach test. What do you see when looking at one? The starting po...

August 23, 2021
News 2021-PVEL-PV-Module-Reliability-Scorecard-Media-Photo
Quality and Reliability Matter: Looking at the Latest PV Module...

Some in the clean energy sector consider PV modules to be commodities, interchangeable and undifferentiated. The look, feel, relative wattag...

June 24, 2021
News 2021-PVEL-PV-Module-Reliability-Scorecard-Media-Photo
One in three solar module manufacturers failed some part of...

The road to a massive capacity expansion of high-power PV modules is proving to be bumpy. One in three participating PV module manufacturers...

May 26, 2021
Featured PVEL
On-Demand Webinar: Buyer Beware Webinar: Lessons Learned from Inverter Testing

Can you trust an inverter datasheet? Results from independent testing show that datasheets can mislead buyers: reported efficiency may be im...

March 8, 2021
News inverter performance checklist
Datasheet or data sh*t? Independent testing finds where certain inverters...

Ask any solar developer, installer or asset owner if they have experienced inverter issues and the response is usually a resounding “y...

March 3, 2021
Featured Bifacial PVEL-001
Boosts and boasts: The latest data on solar tracker +...

Improving the electricity yield in photovoltaic solar energy long has been a game of incremental additions of new technology. Over the ...

January 18, 2021
O&M PVEL_EL image_before with microcracks
PVEL has tested 1 GW of installed PV modules damaged...

Independent solar test lab PV Evolution Labs (PVEL) has tested PV modules installed in more than 1 GW of solar projects that were damaged by...

November 12, 2020
Most Popular Posts
  • 2025 Aurora Solar Snapshot
  • How Our World Energy Streamlined TPO Operations with Aurora Solar
  • U.S. House passes bill that will gut solar industry tax credits
  • Report: Nearly 50% of global solar power exposed to cyber exploitation
  • California Appropriations Committee swiftly passes bill that will break NEM contracts
1 2 Next »
 
FREE SUBSCRIPTION
Sign up today
Featured Content
  • Featured
  • News
  • Products
  • Projects
  • Mounting Guide
Education
  • Awards Nomination Form
  • Education & Conferences
About Us
  • About Us
  • Advertising
  • Contact Us
  • Free Magazine Subscription
  • Free Newsletter Subscription

Other Benjamin Media, Inc Brands:
Compact Equipment | Trenchless Technology | Tunnel Business Magazine | Utility Contractor | Water Finance & Management

©2025 Copyright Solar Builder Magazine   |   Privacy Policy

"/>