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Title

Remarks

Availability

PVRS 1

Photovoltaic Stand-Alone Systems — Design Qualification and Type Approval

First edition 1997-10
44 pages

Covers components (except lamps) and indoor testing of systems.
Based on JRC-Ispra testing experience

Available:
USD 20 incl. mailing

PVRS 2

Crystalline silicon terrestrial photovoltaic (PV) modules Blank detail specification

First edition 1998-12
14 pages

Makes IEC 61215 certifiable.

Available:
USD 20 incl. mailing

PVRS 3

Thin-film terrestrial photovoltaic (PV) modules
Blank detail specification

First edition 1999-05
15 pages

Makes IEC 61646 certifiable.

Available:
USD 20 incl. mailing

PVRS 4

Photovoltaic (PV) stand-alone systems, with a system voltage below 50V.
Blank detail specification

Third draft 2000-10
11 pages

Draft which is intended to make IEC 82/259/CD, June 2001, (with any further amendments, and as published by the IEC in due course), certifiable.

One of the documents on which IEC 82/259/CD is based is NREL/TP-520-27031 (see PVRS 9).

Available as draft, free of charge

PVRS 5

(reserved for future use)

Reserved for a future specification for SHS batteries/accumulators.

Not available at present

PVRS 6

Charge controllers for photovoltaic (PV) stand-alone systems with a nominal system voltage below 50 V. Blank detail specification

First edition 2000-06
12 pages

Makes GEF/WB China Renewable Energy Development (RED) Project Specification certifiable (see PVRS 6A).

Available:
USD 20 incl. mailing

PVRS 6A

Annex - Specification and testing procedure

First edition 2000-06
17 pages

Reproduced by kind permission of the Project Management Office (PMO), World Bank/GEF Assisted China Renewable Energy Development Project, State Economic and Trade Commission, Beijing, People's Republic of China - May 1999, Beijing

Free of charge

PVRS 7

(reserved for future use)

Reserved for a future specification for SHS lighting system.

Not available at present

PVRS 8

Inverters for photovoltaic (PV) stand-alone systems Blank detail specification

First edition 2000-06
13 pages

Makes GEF/WB China Renewable Energy Development Project Specification certifiable (see PVRS 8A).

Available:
USD 20 incl. mailing

PVRS 8A

Annex - Specification and testing procedure

First edition 2000-06
17 pages

Reproduced by kind permission of the Project Management Office (PMO), World Bank/GEF Assisted China Renewable Energy Development Project, State Economic and Trade Commission, Beijing, People's Republic of China - May 1999, Beijing

Free of charge

PVRS 9

Procedures for Determining the Performance of Stand-Alone Photovoltaic Systems

2000-01
34 pages

This is document NREL/TP-520-27031, September 1999, which was prepared by authors from NREL, Sandia National Laboratories, Florida Solar Energy Center, Southwest Technology Development Institute, and Photovoltaics for Utility Scale Applications.

The procedures cover complete outdoor system testing and provide a common approach for evaluating whether a given PV system is suitable to perform the function for which it was designed and manufactured to accomplish, and whether it will provide adequate power to run the load.

This is one of the documents on which the IEC TC 82 Committee Draft referred to under PVRS 4 (see above) is based.