Area 8 > Session
Posters
Moderators
Dennice Roberts, Ana Dyreson
Presentations
AREA 8: MODULE AND SYSTEM RELIABILITY

COMPARATIVE SNOW-SHEDDING PERFORMANCE OF LANDSCAPE VERSUS PORTRAIT ORIENTATION FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS
Ayush Chutani1, David Wallis1, Ana Dyreson1, Laurie Burnham2. 1Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA 2Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA
FIELD COMPARISON OF SNOW LOSSES IN BIFACIAL FIXED TILT VERSUS SINGLE AXIS TRACKING PV SYSTEM (yes)
Ayush Chutani, Isobel Bowker, Ana Dyreson. Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA
METHODOLOGIES FOR IMPUTING MISSING DATA FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE LOSS ESTIMATION
Nikola Hrelja1, Loic Guillemot2, Lluvia Ochoa3. 1TotalEnergies OneTech, Palaiseau, France 2TotalEnergies OneTech, Palaiseau, France 3TotalEnergies OneTech, Palaiseau, France
CAPACITANCE-BASED METASTABILITY IN SAMPLES EXTRACTED FROM UV-STRESSED SILICON TOPCON PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES
Steve Johnston, Dana B. Kern, Rebecca B. Wai, Kent Terwilliger. National Laboratory of the Rockies, Golden, CO, USA
INTEGRATION OF ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT SIMULATIONS FOR PV DEGRADATION SIMULATIONS
Norman Jost, Brandon K. Byford, Jennifer L. Braid, Clifford W. Hansen. Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA
ASSESSING RISKS FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES: ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS, EXTREME WEATHER, AND REGIONAL CAPACITY
Norman Jost1, Jennifer Braid1, Elizabeth Palmiotti2, Dirk Jordan2, Jarett Zuboy2. 1Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA 2National Laboratory of the Rockies, Golden, CO, USA
PVCRACKS: PYTHON REPOSITORY FOR ELECTROLUMINESCENCE IMAGE PROCESSING, CURRENT-VOLTAGE CURVE FITTING AND POWER LOSS ESTIMATION
Norman Jost1, Brandon K. Byford1, Rodrigo d. Prado Santamaria2, Clifford W. Hansen1, Jennifer L. Braid1. 1Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA 2Technical University of Denmark, Roskilde, Denmark
SOLAR TECHNOLOGY SOILING R&D: HISTORY, PROGRESS, STATUS, AND TRENDS
Lawrence L. Kazmerski1, Suellen C.S. Costa2, Antonia Sonia A.C. Diniz3. 1Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI), University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA 2Matrix Energia, São Paulo, Brazil 3Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (PUC Minas), Belo Horizonte, Brazil
THE ENVIRONMENTAL STABILITY OF SNO2, ZNO AND ALLOYED BUFFER LAYERS
Luksa Kujovic, Elliott Groves, Ali Abbas , Luke O. Jones, Mustafa Togay, Luis C. Infante-Ortega, Samuel E. Machin, Adam M. Law, Ana C. Jurado-Estrada, Jake W. Bowers, John M. Walls. Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom
BANKABILITY ASSESSMENT OF TOPCON PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES THROUGH EXTENDED RELIABILITY TESTING
Mengdi Liu1, Eleanor Lee2, Wenhao Xu1, Yating Zhang1, Giorgio Bardizza3, Max Koentopp4, Christos Monokroussos1. 1TÜV Rheinland (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China 2TÜV Rheinland (Taiwan) Ltd., Taipei, Taiwan 3TÜV Rheinland (Italy), Pogliano Milanese, Italy 4TÜV Rheinland Solar GmbH, Cologne, Germany
THE OPERATION AND DURABILITY OF UV-DOWNSHIFTING ENCAPSULANTS FOR CONTEMPORARY PV MODULES
David Miller, Xavier Hanna, Dennice Roberts, Rachael Arnold, Jimmy Newkirk, Kent Terwilliger, Steve Johnston, Rebecca Wai, Peter Hacke, Dana Kern. National Laboratory of the Rockies, Golden, CO, USA
ASHESI SOLAR MONITORING NETWORK VERSION II (ASMONET V2): IMPROVED IOT-BASED SOILING MEASUREMENT FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS IN WEST AFRICA
Augustine Ofosu-Appiah1, Stewart Isaacs2,3, Acheampong A. Afari1, Jeremiah Takyi1, Joshua Nti1, Heather R. Beem1. 1Ashesi University, Berekuso, Ghana 2Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA 3Carnegie Mellon University Africa, Kigali, Rwanda
IN-SITU MOISTURE CHARACTERIZATION TO DE-RISK PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE DEVELOPMENT AND QUALIFICATION
Sergiu Pop1, Mihail Bora2. 1SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, CA, USA 2Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA
PV THAT LASTS: PERSISTENCE IN NEW YORK CUSTOMER-SITED INSTALLATIONS
Antonia Sanhueza1, Dana Nilsson2, Dale Tutaj3. 1DNV, Madison, WI, USA 2NYSERDA, Albany, NY, USA 3DNV, Milwaukee, WI, USA
WHAT SOLAR MODULE TEST FAILURES REVEAL IN 2026: KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM KIWA PVEL'S PV MODULE RELIABILITY SCORECARD
Archana Sinha, Jean-Nicholas Jaubert, Todd Karin, Tristan Erion-Lorico. Kiwa PVEL, Napa, CA, USA
A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND INTEGRATED APPROACH TO MODELING OF AGING UTILITY SCALE PV SYSTEMS
Hanan Wehbi, Joseph Simon, Heather Mirletz, Jal Desai, Taylor Curtis, Garvin Heath, Matthew Prilliman, Brian Mirletz, Silvana Ovaitt, Chris Deline. National Lab of the Rockies, Golden, CO, USA
SENSITIVITY OF MODELS FOR SNOW-INDUCED ENERGY LOSSES IN FIXED-TILT PV SYSTEMS DUE TO DIFFERENT GROUND SNOW DEPTH DATA SOURCES (yes)
Shelbie Wickett, Ayush Chutani, Isobel Bowker, Ana Dyreson. Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA