With PV modules being sold today with longer warranties than ever before the PV installer community should feel safe in offering their customers assurances that the products will stand the test of time. However, when modules underperform or fail, making claims on those warranties is rarely straightforward.

Unless Congress and the administration intercede, the current 26% solar investment tax credit (ITC) will step down to 22% on January 1, 2021, potentially adding millions of dollars in expenses that would otherwise be nonexistent.

It's important to avoid having microcracks in the first place by having really good control over all of the different sources of microcracks along the line from the moment you slice a wafer, to the moment you install a module.

The economic impact of having a fire is enormous. The economic impact of cracking glass can be significant. And even the economic impact of losing one 75th of your circuit can be a very significant in terms of your bottom line.

One of the most critical steps to get exactly right when manufacturing solar modules is the solar cell to solar cell interconnection, where you're soldering electrical connections and mechanical wires between cells.

Microcracks can cause a large area of an individual cell to be isolated from the cell circuit, causing reverse bias. Once a cell gets too hot from reverse bias, it can cause fires, catastrophic failure, and permanent damage.

Microcracks can come from several different areas over the lifecycle of a photovoltaic module. The four main causes of solar microcracks come during manufacturing, during shipment, during installation, and after installation.

All solar cells that go into crystalline modules are made from very thin slices of crystalline silicon, and these slices start off as wafers. Solar microcracks are cracks in the silicon structure that is in the wafer.

This K&L Gates panel webinar shares what they expect to see in the development and power markets worldwide and what trends they see as helping the industry emerge from the COVID-19 crisis stronger and more resilient than ever.

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