In this pv magazine article, George Touloupas, CEA’s Senior Director for Technology and Quality, reviews the quality assurance (QA) activity and methodologies used to ensure PV performance and emphasizes the importance of data-driven approaches and continuous monitoring.
Read MoreIn this Energy Storage webinar, Senior Policy Analyst Christian Roselund and Director of Energy Storage Market Intelligence Dan Finn-Foley analyze the potential impacts of U.S. policy changes on solar and battery storage.
Read MoreIn this pv magazine article, Jeff Zwijack, CEA’s Senior Manager for Energy Storage, explores the essential factors in selecting battery energy storage system (BESS) suppliers. With insights on supplier technology, quality assurance, and risk mitigation, Zwijack guides developers in building resilient, high-performance energy storage projects.
Read MoreIn this PV Tech article, Paul Wormser, Vice President of Technology, and Jake Edie, Vice President of Marketing, discuss the prevalence of soldering defects in solar panels, their impact on performance, and how robust quality assurance measures can help mitigate these risks.
Read MoreIn this webinar, CEA experts present findings on the most common issues seen in PV manufacturing factories, based on their latest inspection data.
Read MoreOver the past 8 years, CEA has conducted more than 70,000 quality inspections in over 300 PV module factories. This report highlights concerning quality trends from the past few years in PV module manufacturing, which could lead to performance and safety risks in the field.
Read MoreIn this Solar Power World article, Jake Edie, Vice President of Marketing CEA, discusses the changing dynamics in the solar and energy storage markets and emphasizes the importance of maintaining high standards for quality in suppliers, products, project design, and installation to avoid costly issues.
Read MoreIn this pv magazine Webinar, Nicholas Hudson, Principal Engineer Engineering Services, and Jörg Althaus, Director Engineering and Quality Assurance Services, discuss common issues during production, what the downstream impact of those issues are, and action that can be taken to prevent these risks.
Read MoreLarge-scale, stationary battery energy storage systems (BESS) have rapidly become crucial components of modern power grids. With the increasing adoption of BESS, however, the risk of battery fires has increased, as Jeff Zwijack of Clean Energy Associates reports.
Read MoreCEA’s Vice President of Marketing, Jake Edie, recently wrote an article in Renewable Energy World about the most surprising findings in clean energy and what developers and buyers will be watching most closely as 2024 unfolds.
Read MoreFollowing extensive factory quality audits on over 30 GWh of energy storage projects over the past six years, CEA’s BESS Quality Risks Report highlights identified key defects and issues, including their causes and associated risks.
Read MoreIn this Energy-Storage.news webinar, CEA’s Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) experts will share essential lessons learned after performing factory quality audits on over 30GWh of BESS projects.
Read MoreCEA's Director of Engineering Services, Jörg Althaus, joins pv magazine's Roundtables Europe 2023 to discuss how the industry is addressing the longevity, testing methods, and problem prevention of new solar panel technologies like TOPCon to safeguard investments.
Read MoreCEA’s Paul Wormser outlines the key steps to ensure the success of future solar deployment in the developing world. He highlights the importance of carefully considering the environment, available infrastructure, and long-term maintenance issues.
Read MoreWhile the adoption of C&I solar rooftops has grown extensively, the industry has encountered safety concerns, including fires and other safety risks. CEA has conducted safety audits on over 600 commercial PV rooftops, and has found significant safety problems in 97% of them. Here’s how developers and end-users prevent the common causes before incidents occur.
Read MoreClean Energy Associates (CEA), the leading provider of technical due diligence and engineering services for solar PV and energy storage around the globe, announced the launch of a suite of supply chain consulting, quality assurance, and market intelligence services to support the rapidly growing green hydrogen sector.
Read MoreThe solar industry has been facing significant supply chain turbulence, resulting in various challenges such as contract breaches, project delays, and frayed relationships between module suppliers and buyers. To navigate this complex environment, CEA’s Martin Deak has developed a comprehensive buyer guide that sheds light on the key issues affecting the PV procurement landscape.
Read MoreCEA’s Joerg Althaus reports that renewables developers need to be cautious about the high defect rates linked to new factories, given the multitude of new production lines that have been announced following the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the European Union's adoption of President Joe Biden's approach.
Read MoreGeorge Touloupas, CEA's Senior Director for Technology and Quality, analyzes the price premium that solar developers will need to accept in exchange for the LCOE savings offered by the next generation of high efficiency PV panels.
Read MoreCEA’s Senior Director of Technology & Quality, George Touloupas, explores the prevailing progress trends in multiple components of the PV module, and how new technologies are affecting the quality of the manufactured PV module and the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE).
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