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PV Evolution Labs (PVEL), an independent test lab for the solar industry, has upgraded the company’s suite of extended reliability and performance tests, the Product Qualification Program (PQP).

PVEL established the PQP in 2012 to provide empirical data for PV module benchmarking and project-level energy yield and financial models, and to help recognize top-performing PV modules. PQP testing also helps inform the company’s annual PV Module Reliability Scorecard, which provides actionable insights for PV module procurement based on data from PVEL’s testing.

“The module buying landscape has changed dramatically in recent years with advancements in module technology and new players entering the market, and in response, PVEL has focused our globally-acclaimed test program on addressing these changes,” said PVEL’s Tristan Erion-Lorico.

“The improvements we’ve made in this PQP update incorporate critical feedback from our downstream partners, research institutes, module and component manufacturers, and our own test results, keeping the PVEL PQP at the forefront of the growing demand for PV module procurement due diligence,” he adds.

Notable updates to the PQP include the following:

  • a new test to address concerns around Ultraviolet Induced Degradation (UVID);
  • refocusing the Hail Stress Sequence (HSS) on identifying the threshold of glass breakage;
  • modifying the Mechanical Stress Sequence (MSS) to target module mechanical durability concerns; and
  • streamlining processes for Light Induced Degradation (LID), Damp Heat (DH), Light and Elevated Temperature Induced Degradation (LETID), and Backsheet Durability Sequence (BDS) testing.

Participation in PVEL’s PQP is voluntary for manufacturers, and only top-performing module model types are named in the annual PVEL Scorecard. To date, PVEL has tested over 600 BOMs from more than 70 manufacturers for the PV Module PQP.

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How Would You Feel If . . .

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Sad that it came to this, but not nearly as sad as I would if he gets away with all this criminality, and the rest of the world writes us of as avid supporters of crime and apathetic to rule of law.

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JD Vance and His Certainty Re: God’s Work

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At left we see illustrated the core problem with the world’s theistic religions, i.e., that adherents are so certain of the rightness of their beliefs that they have no problem destroying the world.

FWIW, I have a friend who takes this even further: he is actively rooting for the apocalypse, and the prospect that all believers in God’s son Jesus will be raptured up to heaven to sit at the right hand of God.

He knows that I don’t believe any of this, but he remains confident that I’ll come around.  As he told me, “God melts even the hardest of hearts.”  He thinks I’m doing the devil’s work with my compassion for others and the effort I put out to achieve a peaceful and sustainable civilization.

We’d be living in tough times even without these fanatics, but religious dogma, especially of this sort, makes it all that much more difficult.

JD Vance and His Certainty Re: God’s Work

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The U.S. Post-Trump

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We read a great deal about people who think that repairing the damage caused by Trump is going to be quick and easy.

Others are not nearly so sanguine, pointing out that many nations have gone to great lengths to create new trade relationships in their effort to cut the United States off without a penny.

Another question is how the people in other countries have come to regard Americans, as people of extremely low moral character–as crackpots, as racists, as gullible morons, as people incapable of critical thinking.  That’s not going to change overnight, if it changes at all.

The U.S. Post-Trump

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