Tier One Panels

B

Berneray

Morning folks....

Any good sites where I can get empirical data about what a Tier 1, 2 or 3 panel actually means.

I thought it referred to the financial standing and make up of the actual company rather than the performance of their panels.

I'm up against an individual that claim his 833 Galliums are a Tier 1 panel made by a Spanish Company and have nothing to do with Chinese panels. I maybe wrongly assumed that these Gallium panels were made by Znshine who are Chinese. Nice looking panel.

The guy I am up against calls himself a Solar PV Broker. He tells his customers he is not tied to any panel or installer but will pick the best deal available for his clients....

Never come across this before....sound a bit like an ex salesman trying to find a niche.....

Not worried about the competition from him....we are well known in our little corner in the North of Scotland....but what hes been telling people about Tiers is interesting....

Any info greatly read as usual guys...
 
If a module’s efficiency is 16% or greater, then it is Tier 1.
Only about the top 5% of all panels land in this range.
Tier 2 panels are 15% efficient or greater and consist of about the top 20% of all panels.
The least efficient modules are in Tier 5, meaning their module efficiency is less than 13%.

loads of information here :-
Solar Panel Comparison Table | Compare Solar Panels | SRoeCo Solar

or here :-
Solar Panel Efficiency Tiers | SRoeCo Solar
efficient has nothing to do with the Tier rating - that's more down to due dilligence on the actual company, and products, around length of time in business, number of panels installed, certification, if they've been used on multi-megawatt projects etc. That company seems to be trying to redefine it.

It's all a bit tenuous anyway tbh, but it's based around whether the manufacturer is seen as being 'bankable' by big investment companies for funding for big projects really.
 
It is also down to manufacturing processes. Tier 1 will be fully automated.

I met a guy who had visited a tier 3 factory in China where they were making the frames fit by whacking them on with mallets......
 
It is also down to manufacturing processes. Tier 1 will be fully automated.

I met a guy who had visited a tier 3 factory in China where they were making the frames fit by whacking them on with mallets......
same as some tier 1 manufacturers, and UK manufacturers...;)
 

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