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‘BIPV Best Practice Guidelines’ for Australia are available at:
http://www.bcse.org.au/default.asp?id=75&articleid=454

In September 2004 the U.S. Electrical Contracting Foundation commissioned a study
to define best practices for installing photovoltaic systems in USA. The National
Electrical Contractors Association is to develop a National Electrical Installation
Standard (Solaraccess, 2004).

E.24 INTERNATIONAL SOLAR ENERGY SOCIETY (ISES) AND
DEUTSCHE GESELLSCHAFT FÜR SONNENENERGIE EV (DGS)

These organisations and others announced in 2004 their intention to ‘establish reliable
quality assurance standards and best-practice guidelines for the integration of solar
thermal and photovoltaics applications in engineering, energy and architecture
applications’ and create ‘a reference system of technical standards for the financial
community’ (DGS/ISES, 2004; Solaraccess, 2004; Siemer, 2004).

REFE RE NCES

Updated World Wide Web links can be found at www.pv.unsw.edu.au/apv_book_refs.
American National Standards Institute, ‘Standards mall’ (www.nssn.org/search.html).
Azzam, M., Jacquemart, C., Kay, R., Ossenbrink, H., Perujo, A. & Varadi, P. (2004),
‘Raising the standard. Global PV standardization and specification’, Renewable
Energy World, 7, July–August, pp. 138–151.

Business Council for Sustainable Energy, ‘Solar accreditation’ (www.bcse.org.au).
CENELEC (2004), Index to electrotechnical standards in European member countries
(www.cenelec.org/Cenelec/CENELEC+in+action/Web+Store/Standards/default.htm).
Dashlooty, N., Wilmot, N.A., Sharma, H., Arteaga, O. & Pryor, T. L. (2004) ‘ResLab
performance testing of stand-alone inverters’, Solar 2004, 1–3 December, ANZSES,
Murdoch, WA.
DGS/ISES (2004), ‘Quality assurance standards and guidelines for solar-technology’,
in Final International Action Programme (www.dke.de/DKE_en/Electrotechnical+
Standardization+in+Germany/News+from+the+DKE+Technical+Committees/2004-
Oeffentlich/The+State+of+Standards+Work+in+the+Field+of+Photovoltaics.htm).
DKE (2004a), ‘The state of standards work in the field of photovoltaics’
(www.dke.de/NR/rdonlyres/5D86B3AE-9ED2-4704-BCDA-87E3E3F74FDA/6340/
Listofstandardsdraftsandspecificationsspeciallydev.pdf).

DKE (2004b), ‘List of standards, drafts and specifications specially developed for PV
applications’ (www.dke.de/file/27847.pdfdatei/List+of+standards+drafts+and+
specifications+specially+developed+for+PV+applications+-+Stand+April+2004.pdf).

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