The 2021 edition of our Workshop series will again be a compact webinar which will be held on June 9^th and 10^th 2021 free of charge.

We hope to welcome you next year in Neuchâtel. In order for us to inform you in time about the new date, please send a short note with the subject: “SOPHIA 2022” to kerstin.koerner-ruf@ise.fraunhofer.de

OBJECTIVES:

REQUIREMENTSOF NEW AND UPCOMING PV APPLICATIONS FOR MATERIAL SELECTION AND RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT

The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL (Switzerland) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE (Germany) are proud to invite you to the online version of the 2021 SOPHIA-workshop ‘PV-Module Reliability’ from Neuchâtel, Switzerland. This concentrated short workshop will feature reliability aspects of innovative PV applications in service life prediction modelling, testing and standardization as well as possibilities offered by data analytical methods to work on reliability topics.

The main topics of the upcoming workshop will be:

• Lightweight PV modules: Lightweight modules are more and more present in the market. Specific impacts on module reliability will be in the focus of this session.
• Crunching Big data for reliability assessment: Advanced data management and data analytical methods open new possibilities to analyze systems and module data to identify and analyze reliability issues.