Renewable energy - articles
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2 minFrom gas to hydrogen: the hydrogen burner conversion, development and testing
Currently most of the burners are fed with natural gas. But what if this equipment will not run on gas in the future, but on hydrogen? With the energy transition underway that future is closer than you probably think!
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3 minCapturing and capitalizing the power of the sun
Next to being one of the most important sustainable energy solutions, solar energy offers great business opportunities. Kiwa helps solar manufacturers to increase the quality of products and investors decrease and mitigate risks to improve their return on investment.
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2 minThe potential of polymers in the energy transition
With the phasing out of oil and natural gas, the question arises as to whether there is still a future for existing natural gas networks and what alternatives could be. A promising viable solution: polymers, or in other words plastic and the piping systems made from them.
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3 minHow PVEL’s ‘PV Module Reliability Scorecard’ is powering the energy transition
Kiwa Group member PVEL, short for PV Evolution Labs, has made it its mission ‘to support the worldwide PV buyer community by generating data that accelerates adoption of solar technology’. The recently published 2023 PV Module Reliability Scorecard is one more example of how PVEL is delivering on that mission.
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2 minExplore PVEL’s Testing at Historic PVUSA
PVUSA is one of the first solar plants built in North America, and currently serves as the home of grid-connected, research-grade outdoor testbed operated by PV Evolutions Labs (PVEL), a member of the Kiwa Group.
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2 minIs Drone EL Right for your project? The benefits of electroluminescence (EL) testing
Solar asset owners and operators may already know about the benefits of electroluminescence (EL) testing, an imaging technique that reveals the full extent of damage to PV modules – even when the damage cannot be seen by eye or with traditional thermal/infrared imaging and the anticipated energy loss is not yet realized.
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3 minInnovation under pressure: 8 key elements in the hydrogen infrastructure
For use in mobile applications such as transportation, H2 must be kept compressed under extremely high pressure. These are the eight key elements in the robust H2 infrastructure of the future.
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3 minA Closer Look at the PVEL Product Qualification Program (PQP)
Buyers around the world rely on PVEL’s Product Qualification Program (PQP), a series of extended reliability tests, to help inform procurement decisions. Learn more about the PQP program, and how it helps mitigate risk for the solar industry.
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2 minNew in our test portfolio: the ‘Hydrogen Embrittlement Test’
As one of the global leaders in hydrogen testing, we recently added an important new test method to our portfolio: the Hydrogen Embrittlement Test according to the ISO 11114-4 Method A - Disc Method
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