Hanwha Warranty

1. SCOPE
a. Products
Q CELLS Modules are defined in this Limited Warranty as Q CELLS
branded photovoltaic modules manufactured by HQC or its authorized
manufacturers that are sold and installed within Canada, the Europe-
an Union (except for Anguilla, Bermuda, Virgin Islands, British Indian
Ocean Territory, Falkland Islands, Cayman Islands, Montserrat, Pitcairn
Islands, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, South Georgia
and the South Sandwich Islands Turks- und Caicos Islands, Clipperton,
French Guiana, French Polynesia, French Southern and Antarctic Territo-
ries, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, New Caledonia, Réunion, Saint-
Barthélemy, Saint-Martin, Saint- Pierre and Miquelon, Wallis and Futuna,
Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius, Bouvet
Island, Canary Islands, Ceuta, Melilla, Illhas Selvagens, Greenland, Jan
Mayen, Svalbard, Faroe Islands, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey, Gibraltar,
Azores, Madiera), Norway, Switzerland and Turkey and are of the follow-
ing product type:
• Q.PRO BFR-G4.1, Q.PRO-G4.1
• Q.PLUS BFR-G4.1, Q.PLUS BFR-G4.2, Q.PLUS-G4.2, Q.PLUS-G4.3
• Q.PLUS L-G4.1, Q.PLUS L-G4.2
• Q.PRO L-G4.1
b. Beneciary
The sole and exclusive beneficiary of this Limited Warranty is an end
customer who purchases Q CELLS Modules from HQC or from any one
of its authorized distributors (“Distributor”) and is the initial installer of
such modules into a specific photovoltaic (PV) solar energy project (“Pro-
ject”), and any of the end customer‘s permitted successors or assigns
(“Customer”).
c. Validity
This Limited Warranty takes effect on June 1
st
, 2016 and shall remain
valid until a new version of warranty applying to Q CELLS Modules is
released by HQC.
d. Term
The term of this Limited Warranty (“Term”) for the Customer begins
on the date of initial delivery to the Customer (“Warranty Start Date”)
and ends at the end of the warranty periods set forth in Section 2. The
performance of warranty services under this Limited Warranty does not
extend the Term. HQC’s obligations under this Limited Warranty are con-
ditioned upon the Customer’s compliance with its payment obligations for
purchase of the applicable Q CELLS Module.
2. WARRANTY
a. Product Warranty
Subject to the terms and conditions in this Limited Warranty, HQC warrants
to the Customer for a period of twelve (12) years following the Warranty
Start Date that the Q CELLS Modules, when installed, used, and serviced
under normal operating conditions and in accordance with Q CELLS Mo-
dule Installation Manual provided by HQC or Distributor: (i) will be free
from defects in materials and workmanship that have a significant negative
effect on the power output of the Q CELLS Modules; and (ii) will be free
from potential-induced degradation in accordance to the test criteria: Cells
at -1500 V against ground, with conductive metal foil covered module sur-
face, 25 °C, 168 h, (collectively, „Product Defect“). The Product Warranty
does not warrant a specific power output of the Q CELLS Modules, which
shall be exclusively covered under the Performance Warranty in Section 2.b.
Product Defect does not include any cosmetic changes or other changes in
the Q CELLS Modules’ appearance, including but not limited to, any color
changes, mold and normal wear and tear.
b. Performance Warranty
Subject to the terms and conditions of this Limited Warranty, HQC war-
rants to the Customer that the Q CELLS Modules are manufactured to
(i) produce a power output of at least ninety-seven percent (97 %) of the
minimum power output specified in the applicable module data sheet
during the first twelve (12) months following the Warranty Start Date,
and (ii) have a yearly maximum decrease (or degradation) of power of not
more than six tenths of one percent (0.6 %) from start of the second (2
nd
)
twelve (12)-month period following the Warranty Start Date until the end
of such twelve (12)-month period, and repeated for each successive twel-
ve (12)-month period until the twenty-fifth (25
th
) anniversary of the War-
ranty Start Date, (collectively, “Performance Warranty”). As an example,
the Q CELLS Module will be manufactured to have a minimum power
output of eighty-three (83 %) of the minimum power output specified in
the applicable module data sheet at the end of the term of this Limited
Warranty. Failure to meet the Performance Warranty is defined herein as
a “Performance Defect.” In the event of a Performance Defect claim,
the power output of any Q CELLS Modules described in this Section 2.b
shall be measured by HQC under the Standard Test Conditions (“STCs”)
defined in the IEC standards EN 61215 and 60904-3 in effect as of the
Warranty Start Date.
3. EXCLUSIONS
The Limited Warranty shall not apply to any Q CELLS Modules affected
by the following events or conditions:
1. usage, transport, storage, installation and/or handling in any man-
ner that fails to strictly comply with the Installation Manual and the
Packaging and Transportation Information sheet applicable to the
Q CELLS Modules;
2. system or components of such system that are of a design, con-
guration or installation that does not meet the standards typically
used by experienced professionals in the industry;
3. incorrect, improper or inadequate service, operation or mainte-
nance of the Q CELLS Modules or of the Project, or any normal
wear and tear of the Q CELLS Modules;
4. damage caused by extreme environmental sources of impact, inclu-
ding, but not limited to (i) acid rain or snow, (ii) blowing sand, (iii)
saline air, (iv) pollution of any kind in the air, soil or groundwater,
(v) unusual oxidation levels, (vi) mold, or (vii) any nearby re, explo-
LIMITED WARRANTY FOR CRYSTALLINE PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES FROM
HANWHA Q CELLS
Valid from June 1
st
, 2016
This limited warranty (“Limited Warranty”) is issued by Hanwha Q CELLS Corp, 86 Cheonggyecheon-ro Jung-gu, Seoul, Korea 101-797, or
its successors or assigns (“HQC”), and applies exclusively to Q CELLS Modules (as defined in Section 1.a).