Ingenia Solar Energy (ISE) is a consulting and engineering company specialising in photovoltaic projects. They have extensive experience as technical advisors to both developers and financial institutions and their own independent laboratory specializes in quality control of photovoltaic (PV) modules and on-site inspections and performance tests of PV plants. Their engineering team designs and optimizes large photovoltaic projects as well as roof-top installations.

INGENIA'S LABORATORY includes a Remote Operations Centre (ROC) which controls and monitors the performance of the PV systems all year long. It is capable of testing 200 modules per week. The lab is equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation: class AAA solar simulator used to measure the max power of PV modules (according to international standard IEC 60904); thermo-graphic cameras to detect resistive hot-spots; and an I-V Curve tracer to check electrical strings of PV Modules on-site. 

Ingenia offers a comprehensive range of services to meet the strictest design and quality control requirements, including:

Technical Assessment
Technical and administrative Due-Diligence.
Assessment of solar resource and electricity production.
Design and engineering of photovoltaic plants.
Supervision of construction phase.
Supervision of Operation & Maintenance.

Quality Control & Monitoring
Factory inspection.
Inspection and testing of PV modules.
Control of PV module degradation.
Remote Monitoring of PV plants.

PV Plant Inspection/Testing
Inspection of mechanical termination.
Inspection of installed PV modules in-site.
Performance Ratio measurement.
I-V Curve measurement.

Acceptance Tests
Preliminary Acceptance Test (PAT).
Final Acceptance Test (FAT).
Periodic inspections.
Analysis of Monitoring Data.

Testing is based on these following international standards:

IEC 61215: Crystalline silicon photovoltaic (PV) modules for terrestrial use. Design qualification and type approval.

IEC 61646: Thin-film photovoltaic modules for terrestrial use.
Design qualification and type approval.

Ingenia Solar Energy Laboratory is a testing laboratory accredited by ENAC (with accreditation number 851/LE1535) for performing the following tests:

Visual inspection
(section 10.1 of the standard UNE-EN 61215:2005 / 
IEC 61646:2008).

Thermographic inspection
(internal procedure)

Insulation test
(section 10.3 of the standard UNE-EN 61215:2005 / 
IEC 61646:2008).

Maximum power determination
(section 10.2 of the standard UNE-EN 61215:2005 / 
IEC 61646:2008).

Performance at low irradiance
(section 10.7 of the standard UNE-EN 61215:2005 / 
IEC 61646:2008).

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