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A Decade of Solar Advancement: Kiwa PVEL's Tenth Edition of the PV Module Reliability Scorecard
12 July 2024
Kiwa PVEL is excited to announce the release of the 2024 PV Module Reliability Scorecard, marking the tenth edition of our annual report. This year’s Scorecard features 388 top-performing PV module models from 53 manufacturers, showcasing the best of what’s commercially available in solar technology.
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Kiwa Expands Solar Offering in North America with Integration of Key Solar Businesses
29 May 2024
Kiwa is pleased to announce the integration of our key solar businesses, including PVEL and PI Berlin North America. This strategic alignment enhances our ability to ensure the quality, safety, and reliability of solar products, supporting the renewable energy transition. By combining our expertise, we better serve the evolving needs of the PV industry and facilitate compliance with regulatory standards.
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Raba Kistner Expands Drilling Services in the US Gulf Coast region
29 March 2024
Raba Kistner Inc. (member of the Kiwa group), recently expanded in the U.S. Gulf Coast region, adding six offices and nearly 60 employees. As part of their growth strategy for the region and the energy sector, they have reintroduced drilling services to meet the needs of their clients in the planning, design, and construction phases of their projects.
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ASI Food Safety Broadens Certification Services Through Kiwa
13 February 2024
In the realm of food safety, the market is flooded with various certification programs designed to guarantee the quality and safety of food and beverage products. The sheer multitude of choices can pose a daunting task for producers seeking the most suitable certification. This is where ASI Food Safety (member of Kiwa Group) comes in. ASI is here to simplify the complex landscape of certification.
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PPI Quality & Engineering Provides Services for the Energy Industry Around the Globe
23 October 2023
PPI Quality & Engineering, a Kiwa company headquartered in Houston, Texas, provides professional engineering, quality assurance, and auditing services to the energy industry clients around the world. Read all about PPI’s evolution of energy services, and their services for the global supply chain in our latest article.
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PI Berlin and PV Evolution Labs join forces at RE+ 2023
8 September 2023
PI Berlin and PV Evolution Labs ( members of the Kiwa Group) will join forces at RE+ in Las Vegas, Nevada from the 11-14th of September. We invite you to visit booth #7433 and talk to representatives from both companies about the value and importance of properly managing quality in the solar industry.
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A Closer Look at the PVEL Product Qualification Program (PQP)
31 August 2023
Buyers around the world rely on PVEL’s Product Qualification Program (PQP), a series of extended reliability tests, to help inform procurement decisions. Learn more about the PQP program, and how it helps mitigate risk for the solar industry.
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ASI’s PCQI Food Safety Training: Empowering Professionals to Ensure Safe Food Practices
17 July 2023
Next month from August 14th-16th, @ASI Food Safety is hosting a Virtual 3 Day PCQI Training, FSMA Preventive Controls for Human Food. This training is designed to provide professionals with the ability to develop and implement effective food safety plans, perform risk assessments, and maintain compliance with regulatory requirements, such as the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) principles.
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T2 Utility Engineers Celebrates 30 Years of Subsurface Utility Engineering
16 June 2023
T2 Utility Engineers, member of the Kiwa Group, is celebrating 30 years of providing Subsurface Utility Engineering services. Thanks to the support of clients and the work of our outstanding team members, T2ue provides Subsurface Utility Engineering and related services for more than 2,000 projects each year from 26 offices in the United States and four offices in Canada.
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Fort Alamo: Raba Kistner preserves a historic American landmark
15 June 2023
Since 2019, Raba Kistner’s Cultural Resources team have been working on The Alamo, a historic Spanish mission and fortress founded in the 18th century, located in San Antonio, Texas. The objective of the project was to assess the condition of the Church and the Long Barrack, the oldest buildings on the Alamo historic site and where many Texian rebels made their last stand in the 1836 battle for Texas’ independence from Mexico.
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ASI LLC joins Kiwa Group to expand Food, Feed & Farm Certifications in the United States
1 December 2022
Kiwa announced the merger with ASI LLC to strengthen Kiwa’s United States footprint significantly in providing Food, Feed & Farm certifications.
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ISO 27001 standard for information security revised
31 October 2022
The revised ISO 27001 standard for information security has been published on 25 October 2022. The updated standard has been aligned with ISO 27002:2022 and includes some technical corrections.
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CMW Geosciences in Australia and New Zealand joins Kiwa family
18 October 2022
As of 14 October 2022, Kiwa Group (Australia and North America) and CMW Geosciences have merged. CMW Geosciences joins the growing family of Kiwa businesses in the Asia-Pacific region including Construction Sciences, SureSearch, Trilab and Geochempet Services.
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Kiwa investigates properties of liquid and supercritical CO₂
9 June 2022
One of the ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is to capture and store or use released CO₂. To do this efficiently and safely, additional knowledge is needed. Kiwa has invested in new facilities to investigate and test with high pressure CO₂.
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Hydrogen permeability research: filling in knowledge gaps
31 May 2022
While concrete applications of hydrogen are already fully operational, there is still much to be discovered about the properties of the gas. At Kiwa, materials expert Sjoerd Jansma is conducting research into the phenomenon of permeability.
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PVEL’s 2022 PV Module Reliability Scorecard is here
20 May 2022
This week PV Evolution Labs (PVEL), member of the Kiwa Group, presented their 8th edition of PVEL’s PV Module Reliability Scorecard. The Scorecard fits into the philosophy that testing and technical services go beyond the lab, because PVEL wants to mitigate risks and improve system performance throughout the complete solar project lifecycle.
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Kiwa present at Intersolar Europe 2022
29 April 2022
Kiwa will participate in Intersolar Europe, world's leading exhibition for the solar industry, from from 11-13 May, in Munich, Germany. We will be presenting our services dedicated to the Renewable Energy market.
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Measure underground gas leaks with Kiwa's Suction method
26 April 2022
Even though not every gas leak poses a direct safety risk, methane is a greenhouse gas and therefore contributes to global warming. Therefore, it is important to detect and reduce gas leaks as effectively as possible. To this end, Kiwa developed the Suction method on behalf of the European Gas Research Group (GERG).
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PVEL to host the U.S. PV ModuleTech Conference this June
12 April 2022
PVEL, the leading independent lab for the downstream solar and energy storage industry will host the first edition of the U.S. PV ModuleTech Conference this coming June at their new facility in Napa Valley, USA.
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SHV's response to the situation regarding Russia and Ukraine
3 March 2022
Since 2021 Kiwa is a member of SHV Family of Companies. Read SHV's response to the situation regarding Russia and Ukraine here.
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