China Central Television (CCTV) runs an annual ‘315’ annual consumer rights show on March 15th – this year, solar power was included in the industries singled out of exposure. The solar industry has featured before in the 315 program, usually because of installer scams which have little interest to the rest of us. This time the reliability and quality of solar modules has also been called into question – which has global relevance given that China is the global supplier of a plurality of modules and a supermajority of solar cells and wafers outside of its borders. In principle, there should be very little in the way of new reliability issues in PV – maybe some design issues concerning the…