pv magazine Webinar | Achieving a 40-year module warranty through data science and engineering

How long does a solar system last? It's a question for anyone installing, or considering installing, solar. It should last longer than the 25-year product warranties that accompany most modules, and certainly longer than the 20-year feed-in tariff timespan relevant for most residential markets. But in short, we still don’t really know.

Following its spin-off from SunPower Corporation in 2020, Maxeon Solar Technologies continues to build upon a 35-year foundation. Over that time, the company has accumulated decades of performance data and technical insights. Enough, so that it recently began issuing a combined 40-year product and performance warranty. Maxeon previously published information substantiating a 40-year useful life for its SunPower Maxeon Interdigitated Back Contact (IBC) technology in 2015, but additional testing, field data, modelling, and design enhancements have taken the manufacturer further yet.

In this pv magazine Webinar, Maxeon will show how they have engineered out the most common solar module failure modes through the unique properties of its IBC cell technology. Maxeon will expand on the design of the technology, as well as the resulting robust protection against environmental stresses and common failure modes, such as hotspots. It’s advanced engineering combined with extensive field data and modeling, have given Maxeon the confidence to support a 40-year warranty.

Joining this webinar will be Omnidian, a company which provides monitoring and maintenance service to more than 1,500 Megawatts of installed capacity in the residential and commercial segments. Omnidian will share firsthand data on comparative degradation rates of systems with Maxeon technology.

pv magazine Webinar content:
· Expected performance impact over time from major degradation and failure modes
· Eliminating failures from:
o Shading and formation of hotspots
o Cell cracking and thermal stresses
o Humidity and corrosion
· Omnidian review of their machine learning based methodology
· Q&A

Attendees will have the opportunity to put their questions to the speakers and become part of the discussion. Bella Peacock, Editor at pv magazine Australia will be the moderator of this webinar.

Registration for this pv magazine Webinar is free of charge.