Enertis Applus+, the worldwide high quality management and testing agency, is offering provide chain high quality management and assurance providers to a 2.5GW portfolio of photo voltaic PV initiatives throughout the US.
The corporate’s providers give attention to mitigating long-term danger in PV initiatives by stopping the acquisition of non-reliable or unethically traced parts. Particularly, it mentioned that it has targeted on making certain that dangers or publicity to unethical labour practices from polysilicon manufacturing in Xinjiang, China, have been dominated out. In June, the US launched the Uyghur Compelled Labor Prevention Act to rule out imports of merchandise from the province.
Enertis additionally mentioned that it acted, and can act, as a technical advisor throughout negotiations with the initiatives’ important element suppliers, making certain that manufacturing high quality and technical requirements have been upheld.
The modules used within the initiatives got here from seven suppliers with factories in Vietnam, India, Cambodia and Thailand. A current US Division of Commerce investigation discovered that some photo voltaic producers in Southeast Asia have been circumventing import duties on Chinese language PV cells. Enertis mentioned that it audited these factories and supervised manufacturing processes to detect non-conformities and consider procedures.
All the modules inspected used bifacial mono-PERC cells, in accordance with Enertis. The initiatives will likely be positioned in Texas, Ohio, Illinois, Louisiana, West Virginia, New York, and Maine and vary in measurement from 50MWp to over 600MWp.
Traceability is an more and more urgent concern for the photo voltaic trade, each within the US and elsewhere. PV Tech mentioned the rising scrutiny on European provide chains, and the potential resolution in home manufacturing, final month.
