Unveiling the Unseen: Harnessing UV Fluorescence for Comprehensive Rooftop PV System Assessment and Successful Insurance Claims Process

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Collecting data to support an insurance claim for hail damaged commercial rooftop PV systems can be challenging since the small or non-existent spaces between panels does not allow access to the MC4 connectors to perform electroluminescence (EL) testing or even to place a luminescence camera system close to many of the panels.  UV Fluorescence (UVF) is an emerging technique for imaging cracked solar cells and other defects that is non-contact in nature and which is well suited toward imaging these rooftop systems.  However, while EL is well known to the PV community and to some insurance claim boards, UVF is unfamiliar to most, and this is a barrier to its implementation in insurance claims.  This poster shows UVF images captured for a variety of rooftop systems in Minnesota, and shares details on how these images were used in successful insurance claims. 

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