Not to be confused this list named the latest tier 1 solar panels list 2019 is available online.
Bloomberg tier 1 solar panels list 2014.
Tier 1 manufacturers are usually the companies in the quarterly bloomberg new energy finance bnef pv market outlook sorted according to their annual module production capacity in mw year.
A company may be removed from the tier 1 list at any time so only the list for the most recent quarter is valid.
Tier 1 is a term created by bloomberg with no criteria of quality in the selection process.
Bloomberg does not audit manufacturing facilities or product.
Tier 1 in a nutshell.
Note that a tier 1 listing is not a recommendation for the company or its products.
However close observation of the past trend shows that usually the top 5 brands in the tier 1 panel list can be taken as rule of thumb for laymen to select a pv panel brand for their business or residential pv system.
Therefore the tier 1 list of solar panel manufacturers changes quarterly.
The different brands in this list are marked by bnef as bankable meaning they have their own products factories and their products were used on megawatt size projects.
In this 3 tier system the tier 1 list usually has around 35 companies.
Not to be confused the bloomberg module tiering list 2020 is not published by bloomberg new energy finance online.
The list of tier 1 manufacturers is available to bloombergnef s solar insight subscribers as part of the quarterly bloombergnef pv market outlook.