[RE-wrenches] REC Solar melt-down

[Bill Brooks]

Not sure what "CEC specced panels" means. Everything CEC must be listed to
UL1703-BP has had fires with UL/CEC modules, and so have other companies.
The question raised here is what defect caused the recall?

 

This is not unexpected, but it is horrible. Just think if a major company
like REC can screw up, how does that make you feel about the Chinese
products that copied these products. REC is recalling products and putting
up the 56 million to do it-will a smaller Asian manufacturer do the
same-highly unlikely.

 

Bill.

 

 

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Old news, and "horrified" is a bit over the top. Try doing a search for "bp
solar panel fires" for example (but note that all the BP fires have been
with CEC specced panels, not any of the UL).

 

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From: Marco <mailto:marco at pvthawaii.com>  

To: 'RE-wrenches' <mailto:re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org>  

Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 3:40 PM

Subject: [RE-wrenches] REC Solar melt-down

 

 

Anyone else out there horrified by this kind of news from REC Solar in
Norway?  WTF?!

 

marco

 

REC to Recall All of Its Solar Panels From 2008

Thursday, 18 June 2009 13:43 

Greentech Media 

 

Renewable Energy Corp will repair or change all of the solar panels it sold
in 2008 and a quarter of those it sold in 2007 because of a manufacturing
defect, according to Dagens
<http://www.dn.no/forsiden/naringsliv/article1689470.ece>  Naeringsliv.

 

The total comes to around 420,000 solar panels. So far 100,000 panels have
been returned. The whole exercise will cost around $56 million.

 

A recall like that, of course, just makes a bad situation worse for REC.
Sales plummeted late last year with the economic downturn. Sales in Spain
were particularly hard hit. The country actually surpassed
<http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/report-global-solar-industry-ra
ked-in-371b-in-2008-5899/>  Germany to become the largest solar market in
the world due to a high feed-in tariff. But it also caused a land rush that
lead to an oversupply of panels. Although some parts of the world economy
have shown signs of stabilization, solar prices continue to decline.

 

Link:
http://www.solarfeeds.com/greentech-media/7596-rec-to-recall-all-of-its-sola
r-panels-from-2008.html


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