Photovoltaic technologies
For more than a century, UL has been a leader in instilling a product safety engineering discipline into research, development, design and manufacturing of products world-wide. UL is committed to being a world leader in the safety, performance and quality of PV systems and products.
Currently Underwriters Laboratories serves photovoltaic (PV) and concentrated solar / concentrating PV.
UL's Global Market Access solutions
In addition to providing testing and certification services, UL is a leader in standards development, publishing the UL standards for the US market and actively participating in developing global International Electro-technical Commission (IEC) standards. UL is also a leading organization in supporting the global efforts to harmonize the UL and IEC PV standards with industry colleagues.
In addition to providing PV manufacturers with the trusted UL (US) and C-UL (Canada) certification Marks, which only UL is authorized to issue, UL offers compliance to the standards of the IEC and issues the applicable CB certifications to provide safety as well as performance conformity around the globe.
Please note!
PV manufacturers that pursue the UL certification and compliance to the IEC standard in the same project submittal also receive California Energy Commission (CEC) compliance testing at no additional charge!
Manufacturers of PV modules can save time to market and increase their certification and testing investment by combining their testing and certification efforts.
Master and fast track certification program
For PV production equipment manufacturers and PV module manufacturers.
This program is for manufacturers of end-to-end PV production equipment who produce a complete turn-key solution production line for PV modules and then supply the production line to PV module manufacturers.
The manufacturer of the PV production equipment submits basic module designs for certification to sell the production lines of the basic module designs that are essentially pre-certified to the PV module manufacturer. This allows for more efficient PV module test programs as redundant test programs can be avoided on PV modules that are identical in construction, materials and performance.
Product types
- The production lines can be for flat-plate and thin-film PV modules.
- These production lines may include front-end cell production in addition to the back-end module production assembly.
Applicable Standards
- UL 1703 | UL 61730
- IEC 61215 | IEC 61646 | IEC 61730
Additional resources
- Download additional info material
- Product Categories (Category Control Numbers - CCN) for regulators and utilities
- For more details, please contact us at photovoltaic@ul.com
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