[RE-wrenches] whos doing the PV testing

[David Brearley]

Jay,

According to Pat Saxon at the California Energy Commission, the list of
approved test facilities currently include: CSA, Intertek (ETL) and UL. TUV
Rheinland of North America is in the process of expanding their scope to
include this testing. The testing performed includes portions, but not all,
of IEC 61215 (for c-SI) and IEC 61646 (for thin film). The nominal operating
cell temperature (NOCT) and the temperature coefficient of power
measurements reported from these third party testing laboratories are now
used to derive the PTC ratings for CEC eligible modules. That¹s basically
the change; previously these values were self-reported by the manufacturers,
generally optimistically.

A section in one of our feature articles, a recent Q&A response and a letter
in our Mail department cover aspects of the new testing. If you would like
me to send you links or PDFs to these sources just contact me offline.

Best regards,

David Brearley, Senior Technical Editor
SolarPro magazine 
NABCEP Certified PV Installer 
david.brearley at solarprofessional.com
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On 9/29/09 10:30 PM, "jay peltz" <jay at asis.com> wrote:

> HI All,
> 
> I"m wondering if anyone knows who is doing the new 3rd party PV
> testing for california?
> 
> And also how they are doing it, ie real world testing or modeling.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> jay
> 
> peltz power
> 
> 

> 





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