Services for Photovoltaics manufacturers

Ensure your product meets international performance and safety requirements

Getting your PV modules or components successfully certified can be a complicated, time consuming process. By gaining neutral third-party testing and certification through TÜV SÜD, you enhance your reputation for quality. This is particularly important when it comes to assuring international PV investors and buyers of the safety and the performance qualification of your products.

Obtaining our internationally recognised certification marks also engenders confidence in professional purchasers and consumers the world over.

Our testing and certification services for:

PV Module
- TÜV SÜD Mark for IEC/EN 61215/61646 & IEC/EN 61730
- CB scheme certification

Concentrating PV Module (CPV)
- TÜV SÜD Mark for IEC 62108

PV Electrical Components
- Junction Box: DIN EN 50548
- Connectors: EN 50521
- Cables: Draft DIN VDE AK 411.2.3

PV Materials
- Back sheet: Partial Discharge Test, IEC 61730-2 (IEC 60664-1)
- EVA: peel test, gel content of lamination

Cells
- Spectral response
- I-V characterisation

Balance Of System (BOS) Components
- Inverters: Safety IEC 62109, DIN V VDE V 0126-1-1, EMC EN 61000-6-4, EN 61000-6-2, UL 1741

Other services for PV manufacturers:

• R&D testing: standard or extended environmental tests
• Characterization of secondary reference cells for laboratory use
• Electroluminescence, thermography
• Consultancy on PV laboratory requirements
• PV laboratory qualification for External Testing Programmes with TÜV SÜD