How do glass defects affect a PV system?
Glass defects impact the economic performance of a PV system in multiple ways. The most obvious effect is the potential (in)direct performance loss of PV modules, which results in reduced economic revenues. Secondly, PV modules that suffer from glass defects may no longer meet safety requirements, therefore these modules are replaced.
Are glass-glass PV modules a problem?
Unfortunately, glass-glass PV modules are, similar to regular PV modules, subject to early life failures. A failure of growing concern are defects in the glass layer (s) of PV modules. The scale of decommissioned PV modules with glass defects will increase with the development of solar PV energy [ 7 ].
Does glass defect reparation damage PV cells?
Furthermore, the research analyzed the economic and energetic impact of glass defect reparation in comparison with regular substitution. We found that glass-glass PV modules which endured glass defects did not show performance loss, nor internal damage to the PV cells.
Can PV modules survive a glass defect?
However, glass defects do not directly imply that PV modules endure internal damage nor that PV modules cannot continue to operate with minimal microcracks. Thus far, glass defects have been regarded as a failure beyond repair and no noticeable attempt has been made to develop reparation methods.
How common is glass breakage in PV modules?
A customer complaints research, on PV modules after two years of operation, observed glass breakage for 10% of the failure cases [ 28 ]. Another study on PV failures observed an even higher failure-share for glass breakage.
Does weathering damage glass PV modules?
In glass-glass PV modules the interlayer is often Polyolefin Elastomer (POE) encapsulant. Subsequent weathering of the encapsulant, such as the ingress of moisture, may decrease the strength of defected glass PV modules. This will reduce the lifetime of the module and cause corrosion of internal components [ 20 ].
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