JUNE 8-13, 2014 • DENVER, COLORADO
171
TECHNICAL PROGRAM
Area 12 - Orals
1:30 - 3:00 PM
Ballroom 2C
Field Reliability Experience
Chair(s): Charlie Hasselbrink, Ralph Gottschalg
1:30
(951) Field Performance of 1.7 Gigawatts of
Photovoltaic Systems
Dirk C Jordan, Sarah R Kurtz
NREL, Golden, CO, USA
2:00
(952) Visual Degradation in Field-aged
Crystalline Silicon PV Modules in India and
Correlation with Electrical Degradation
Shashwata Chattopadhyay
1
, Rajiv Dubey
1
, Vivek
Kuthanazhi
1
, Jim J. John
1
, Chetan S. Solanki
1
, Anil
Kottantharayil
1
, Brij M. Arora
1
, K.L. Narasimhan
1
,
Juzer M. Vasi
1
, Arun Kumar
2
, O.S. Sastry
2
1
National Centre for Photovoltaic Research and
education, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,
Powai, Mumbai, 400076, India,
2
Solar Energy
Center, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy,
New Delhi, 110003, India
2:15
(953) Evaluation of 12-Year-Old PV Power Plant
in Hot-Dry Desert Climate: Potential Use of Field
Failure Metrics for Financial Risk Calculation
Jaya Krishna Mallineni, Brett J Knisley, Karan R
Yedidi, Sai Tatapudi, Joseph Kuitche, Govindasamy
Tamizhmani
Arizona State University Photovoltaic Reliability
Laboratory(ASU-PRL), Mesa, AZ, USA
2:30
Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(954) FMECA on Field Deployed c-Si Modules
under Hot-Dry Desert Climate for Determining
Dominant Failure Modes
Sanjay M Shrestha, Jaya K Mallineni, Sai Tatapudi,
Brett Knisely, Karan Yedidi, Joseph Kuitche,
Govindsamy TamizhMani
Arizona State University, Mesa, AZ, USA
2:45
(955) Fifteen Years and Counting: The Reliable
Long Term Performance of the First Grid-
Connected, Building-Integrated, Thin-Film
Photovoltaic Installation in Brazil
Lucas Nascimento, Ricardo Ruther
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina / UFSC,
Florianopolis, Brazil
3:00 - 3:30 PM
Ballroom Pre-function
Coffee Break
