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TL;DR: The industry would be strengthened by using the wisdom of the community to develop a single set of tests that will help customers quantify confidence in PV products, and the need for quality assurance (QA) standards is evaluated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest a tiered approach to creating risk assessments, including the intended application, consequence of a possible failure, variability in the manufacturing, installation, and operation, as well as uncertainty in the measured acceleration factors, which provide the basis for predictions based on accelerated tests.

TL;DR: Current needs for new tests, some challenges for defining those tests, and some of the key efforts toward development of international standards are summarized, emphasizing that meaningful quantification of reliability must be done in the context of a specific product with design parameters defined through a quality management system.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe three closely coordinated efforts that together will provide a comprehensive set of consensus standards and specifications for the technical aspects of verifying PV system quality and bankability.