What do you think about "Suntech, Astroenergy and micro-inverter Hoymiles"?

[Marty]

Hi FerCosme

I do not have any experience with Hoymiles micro inverters. It looks like they have done some big projects though worldwide. Hopefully someone here has direct experience.

Suntech were the leading solar panel manufacturers for a long time, until they ran into financial difficulty. They nearly went bankrupt around 2012 and needed to get help from the Chinese government I believe. Since then they have fallen behind the best manufacturers, but still make a decent panel, and still produce around 2GW of panels a year (which is about what they were doing back in 2012).

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Astronergy solar panel review

Hi @jarama Astroenergy are a lower cost panel. Their parent company name is CHINT Solar, and they have an office in Adelaide, Australia. They have Bloomberg Tier 1 status, but as mentioned many times elsewhere, this reflects the company’s financial position, not the quality of the solar panels they produce. They are not on our Best Solar Panels list. It’s a good idea to start there: I would start by reading our article on which inverter and panel brands to buy. Ch 6. What panel and invert…