The Flight to Quality Assurance in Solar and Storage Markets Amidst Technology Disruption
How COVID-19 is Pushing Solar and Storage to Higher Quality
In this SolarEdge Virtual Solar Show presentation, Andy Klump discusses how COVID-19 and latest technology has disrupted the solar and energy storage industry, and how those disruptions are pushing companies to quality assurance.
In this pv magazine Webinar, CEA’s supply chain experts—George Touloupas, Vice President of ESG & New Services, and Senior Project Managers Zhuo Chen and Nicola Licata—outline key ESG risks and share best practices for documenting and mitigating them.
The PV SMIP provides a comprehensive and unbiased analysis of the top PV module manufacturers in the world. It offers detailed insights into capacities, technology, and efficiency roadmaps, along with Manufacturing, Capacity, and Technology (MCT) ratings for each supplier.
In this SunCast webinar, Jeff Zwijack, CEA’s Associate Director of Energy Storage, shares key insights on common quality issues found in BESS factories and how project teams can proactively mitigate risks through smarter supplier selection, contract safeguards, and robust QA practices.
The quarterly published Energy Storage STPR covers global and regional supply chain analysis, technology trends, and regional policy analysis. This quarter the focus is on new efforts for stackable BESS technology, the potential for non-lithium-ion technology as a tariff solution, and insights from a battery fire safety expert on myths vs. reality and best practices.
The ESS Price Forecasting Report provides an in-depth five-year forecast for the price of a DC battery container, including battery cells, modules, racking, and additional balance of system needed for a containerized battery system.
The latest Energy Storage System (ESS) Supplier Market Intelligence Report includes concise and standardized analyses of major LIB cell suppliers and BESS integrators, focusing on global production capacities, product portfolios, and notable projects.
This article highlights how CEA’s audit prevented defective battery cabinets from reaching a project site and exposed the supplier’s resale of unsafe equipment. The case underscores the importance of independent quality oversight.
Christian Roselund, CEA’s Senior Policy Analyst, joins the SunCast Podcast to discuss the new House budget bill threats to solar.
In kWh Analytics’ latest Solar Risk Assessment report, CEA highlights that fire suppression system issues were identified in 28% of energy storage systems during factory inspections.
George Touloupas, Vice President of ESG and New Services at Clean Energy Associates (CEA), and Huatian Xu, CEA’s Director of Technology and Quality, analyze the April 2025 results from the pv magazine test outdoor installation in Yinchuan, China.