TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - ELECTRICAL POWER AND ENERGY - Preferred Components: An additional electronic component is formed by a diode, a sensor, an integrated electronic circuit, a semiconductor, preferably power semiconductor, a conductor plate element, a circuit board, a passive component including a resistor, an inductor, a capacitance or a material for construction of electrical functions. The photovoltaic module exhibits several solar cells, where each solar cell is equipped with the electronic component, and the additional electronic components are connected upstream the connection housing for deriving the generated electrical energy. The electronic component is embedded in a receiving area of the electrically conducting and structured layer formed by a depression or a recess, and/or the adjacent layer of an insulating- and/or a dielectric material. The additional electronic component is formed by: a bypass diode, which is respectively associated with the individual solar cell or the several solar cells provided in the photovoltaic module; or a sensor to determine operating parameters of the photovoltaic module including temperature or generated electrical energy, a sensor for environmental influences including wind, vibration or hail, a sensor for light irradiation and/or light irradiation distribution, a sensor for theft protection or an acoustic sensor. Preferred Method: The electronic component is connected with the electrically conducting and structured layer, or made on and/or into the electrically conducting and structured layer via soldering, adhesive bonding, welding, bonding, compression, pressing, riveting or galvanic bonding. The electronic component is regulated and/or controlled from outside the photovoltaic module, preferably below intermediate circuit of the connection housing. The additional electronic component conducts a determination of operating parameters of the photovoltaic module including temperature, generated electrical energy, environmental influences including wind, vibration or hail, light irradiation and/or light irradiation distribution, a theft protection or an acoustic monitoring.