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SolarDave: What manufacturer do you like to use for solar panels and why?
Tony Boniface: We prefer SunPower because for a couple of reasons, one is their efficiency – they are the most efficient panel, also they are all black with also lends for a nice aesthetic attribute. Black seems to blend in to the houses the best, we found they kind of disappear.
Those are the two main reason, but SunPower has made a big effort to counter where the industry has been fits and starts they force dealers to traditionally forced to inventory panels, SunPower is all about just-in-time delivery. So it makes a difference from a cash flow point. For a small business that can be critical.
They are (SunPower) are very interested in growing their market share and they realize the one way to do that is to make our market share grow – they understand and cater to the small business both from an inventory stand point and a marketing materials stand point and sales department and training. So they do a really good job of assisting there dealers where ever possible.
SolarDave: What other panels do you like to use?
Tony Boniface: By request of on occasion if we can’t get what we need from SunPower we for a particular project we may fall to EverGreen or Kyocera for instance – both good makers, EverGreen has the advantage of they are an American company.
Kyocera in my opinion has been in the industry the longest and has stayed the course. They are also a materials company they make ceramics glasses and so forth so I think the quality is very high.
SolarDave: What SunPower models do you like to use the best?
Tony Boniface: SunPower likes to minimize the number of models they had. If they could have come out with just one they would have. They try to avoid scope creep as the more models they have they more people you have to keep tabs on.
They have two models a high efficiency the white module with the white backing and they have the slightly less effiencent model which is the all black (loss a little efficiency) right now it is the 230 watt the white one and the 225 watt is the black. That SunPower 225 watt has changed though because the process has become more efficient in the cells – it used to be the SunPower model 205 and 210 then 215 220 and now it is the 225 and 230. So it is pretty typical in the industry as the manufacturers are getting the efficiencies up.
Post time: Jul-03-2017