NOVELTY - Forming back-sheet assembly for photovoltaic module having multiple solar cells with back-side electrical contacts, comprises e.g.: providing substrate having back surface and front surface; adhering electrically conductive metal circuit to front surface of substrate; adhering many release pads to electrically conductive metal circuit in pattern; and adhering insulating layer to electrically conductive metal circuit over electrically conductive metal circuit and release pads.    USE - The process is useful for forming back-sheet assembly for photovoltaic module having multiple solar cells with back-side electrical contacts (claimed).    ADVANTAGE - The process provides back-sheet assembly in a efficient, consistent and cost effective manner.    DETAILED DESCRIPTION - Forming a back-sheet assembly for a photovoltaic module having multiple solar cells with back-side electrical contacts, comprises: providing a substrate having a back surface and a front surface; adhering an electrically conductive metal circuit to the front surface of the substrate; adhering many release pads to the electrically conductive metal circuit in a pattern; adhering an insulating layer to the electrically conductive metal circuit over the electrically conductive metal circuit and the release pads; forming many openings (18) in the insulating layer in a pattern corresponding to the pattern in which the release pads are adhered to the electrically conductive metal circuit; and filling the openings in the insulating layer with an electrically conductive material such that the electrically conductive material is in electrical contact with the electrically conductive metal circuit. INDEPENDENT CLAIMS are also included for:    (1) forming a back-contact photovoltaic module, comprising providing a back-sheet assembly for a photovoltaic module, providing many back-contact solar cells having a light receiving side and an opposite back side, where the back contact solar cells each having many electrical contacts on their back side in a pattern corresponding to the pattern of openings in the insulating layer that are filled with electrically conductive material, and adhering the back side of the back-contact solar cells to the insulating layer such that the electrical contacts on the back side of the solar cells are in electrical contact with the electrically conductive metal circuit through the electrically conductive material in the openings in the insulating layer;    (2) a back-sheet assembly for photovoltaic module having multiple solar cells each having back-side electrical contacts, comprising a substrate having a back surface and a front surface, an electrically conductive metal circuit adhered to the front surface of the substrate, many electrically conductive release pads adhered to the electrically conductive metal circuit in a pattern, an insulating layer adhered to the electrically conductive metal circuit, the openings in the insulating layer over the release pads, where openings being filled with an electrically conductive material and being in a pattern corresponding to the pattern of the release pads adhered to the conductive circuit; and    (3) the back-contact photovoltaic module comprising the back-sheet assembly for a photovoltaic module.    DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING(S) - The figure shows a schematic view of the back sheet assembly for a back-contact photovoltaic module.    Backsheet substrate (14)    Interlayer dielectric layers (16)    Openings (18)