Not sure what "CEC specced panels" means. Everything CEC must be listed to UL1703-BP has had fires with UL/CEC modules, and so have other companies. The question raised here is what defect caused the recall?
This is not unexpected, but it is horrible. Just think if a major company like REC can screw up, how does that make you feel about the Chinese products that copied these products. REC is recalling products and putting up the 56 million to do it-will a smaller Asian manufacturer do the same-highly unlikely. Bill. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wind-sun.com Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 12:59 AM To: RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] REC Solar melt-down Old news, and "horrified" is a bit over the top. Try doing a search for "bp solar panel fires" for example (but note that all the BP fires have been with CEC specced panels, not any of the UL). ............................................................................ ...................... Northern Arizona Wind & Sun - Electricity From The Sun Since 1979 Solar Discussion Forum: http://www.wind-sun.com/ForumVB/ ............................................................................ ...................... ----- Original Message ----- From: Marco <mailto:[email protected]> To: 'RE-wrenches' <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 3:40 PM Subject: [RE-wrenches] REC Solar melt-down Anyone else out there horrified by this kind of news from REC Solar in Norway? WTF?! marco REC to Recall All of Its Solar Panels From 2008 Thursday, 18 June 2009 13:43 Greentech Media Renewable Energy Corp will repair or change all of the solar panels it sold in 2008 and a quarter of those it sold in 2007 because of a manufacturing defect, according to Dagens <http://www.dn.no/forsiden/naringsliv/article1689470.ece> Naeringsliv. The total comes to around 420,000 solar panels. So far 100,000 panels have been returned. The whole exercise will cost around $56 million. A recall like that, of course, just makes a bad situation worse for REC. Sales plummeted late last year with the economic downturn. Sales in Spain were particularly hard hit. The country actually surpassed <http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/report-global-solar-industry-ra ked-in-371b-in-2008-5899/> Germany to become the largest solar market in the world due to a high feed-in tariff. But it also caused a land rush that lead to an oversupply of panels. Although some parts of the world economy have shown signs of stabilization, solar prices continue to decline. Link: http://www.solarfeeds.com/greentech-media/7596-rec-to-recall-all-of-its-sola r-panels-from-2008.html _____ _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Home Power magazine List Address: [email protected] Options & settings: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List-Archive: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List rules & etiquette: www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm Check out participant bios: www.members.re-wrenches.org
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