Scaling up solar PV deployment: Implementing projects with assured quality

This side event held at the Eighth session of the IRENA Assembly, shared the best practices in assuring quality PV systems based on experts’ experience as well as the Agency’s tools and guidelines.

The competitiveness of renewable energy technologies is improving rapidly, highlighted by recent price developments, including in the field of PV technologies. It is essential to assure stakeholders that newly deployed PV technologies will deliver the anticipated services with the expected performance during their lifetime. Therefore at this event, experts shared experiences on how to develop PV projects based on assured quality. Approaches that support the development of bankable renewable energy projects and quality infrastructure for different types of PV markets were showcased, from nascent to mature markets, and the needs and priorities of stakeholders in these fields were identified.

It was emphasised that robust quality assurance protects and accelerates future investments in PV projects, lowers capital costs, improves overall performance, extends module lifespans and can contribute to lower long-term electricity costs.

Learn more here about the development of bankable solar PV projects and quality assurance mechanisms for PV systems.

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