The Hidden Costs of Small Failures: Designing Reliability at the Component Level

Recording from Wednesday, February 18, 2026 | Solar Quality Summit | Language: English | Duration: 63:41 .

Reliability is won or lost in the details. Not all failures make headlines but many of them quietly erode performance, increase maintenance costs, and compromise long-term plant reliability. From cracked connectors and loose terminations to degraded junction boxes and premature tracker failures, small component-level issues can have big operational consequences. This session zooms in on the oftenoverlooked failures that accumulate over time, and what it takes to prevent them through better component design, selection, and system engineering.

Moderation

Nikoletta Fodor
Project Officer
SolarPower Europe

Speaker

Ilker Aksoy
Prysmian

Dominic Buergi
Global Head of Services
Staubli

Sonja Körner
Senior O&M Engineer
Enerparc

Ibrahim Burak Keskin
Electrical and Electronics Engineer
Eyerod

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