Time to round up our Trina Solar panel review. What do we end up with? Let’s list the most important points about the brand and its product:
- Trina Solar is a Chinese brand.
- It consistently makes the Top 5 of the largest solar manufacturers.
- Trina Solar is famous for improvements on n-type solar cells and multi busbars technology.
- The brand has set numerous records in solar panels efficiency and production.
- There is an emphasis on high-output modules for projects of a large scope.
- Trina Solar seems to be really into bifacial modules. These can bring up to 30% more production for the same space.
- Energy conversion rate of Trina panels is above average: 18%-21%. The maximum efficiency of a Trina module is 21.6%, which is among the highest numbers on the market.
- Trina Solar panels are on the cheaper side of the market. The cost per watt usually doesn’t go over $0.8.
- Warranties are standard: 12 years for product and 25 years for performance (30 for bifacial). However, their latest Vertex module is going to have a 15-year product warranty with an optional extension to 25 years.
- Degradation rate is slightly better than average: 0.55% power loss per year. Panels usually retain over 83% of their initial output after 25 years.
- Weather resilience of Trina Solar seems like nothing special. 5600 Pa of maximum positive load is enough to handle most tornadoes and hurricanes of small and medium scale.
- The company had a series of quality issues between 2011 and 2014. Nothing too problematic has happened ever since.
- Trina Solar panels usually have a very good design.
Overall, Trina Solar looks like a great Chinese solar company — though it may seem a bit typical with their desire to make panels as cheap and efficient as possible. It is great to see their engineers move solar technologies forward and set records for production and conversion rate. Yeah, quality issues story is there, but it was almost 10 years ago, drop it already!
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Trina Solar panels are modern, cheap, good-looking and productive; the company has all the reasons to be in the list of the world’s best solar manufacturers. On that note we end our 2022 Trina Solar panels review and will be back with more.