Industry leaders at pv magazine Week Europe 2025 said manufacturers are implementing measures to limit ultraviolet-induced degradation in tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) solar modules and ...

Thornova Solar has introduced a new utility-scale solar module featuring reinforced armored-glass architecture engineered to ...

US based manufacturer Hounen Solar has announced that its HNM7-SHDB144-550/M bifacial module has successfully passed the Hail Stress Sequence (HSS) test conducted by Kiwa PVEL, highlighting its ...

Independent testing lab Kiwa PVEL just published the 12th edition of its annual PV Module Reliability Scorecard. The digital ...

FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VDE Americas and RETC, part of the VDE Group, today introduced the Hail Resiliency Curve (HRC) Test, a groundbreaking test protocol designed to evaluate solar panel ...

This year’s Scorecard results had 43 manufacturers named as “Top Performers” in at least one test. Image: Kiwa PVEL. For the fourth year in a row, Kiwa PVEL’s 2026 Module Reliability Scorecard ...

Independent testing laboratory Kiwa-PVEL today published the 11th edition of its PV Module Reliability Scorecard, having extensively tested PV modules from 50 different manufacturers. The scorecard ...

For the first time in the independent testing laboratory’s 12-year history, no single module has achieved the coveted “top performer” rating in all reliability tests, and a record 87% of manufacturers ...

Metyx has observed clear frustration in the field of vehicle-integrated photovoltaic systems, conventional glass-based photovoltaic (PV) modules being heavy, fragile, difficult to integrate onto ...