Companies )ENF – Introduction to Report |
Introduction |
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For many years now, governments around the world have been providing financial incentives to promote solar energy, whilst requiring a laboratory certification for the installed products. Therefore it is critical to source products able to meet the certified quality required by various governments whilst maintaining a competitive price. |
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Report Target |
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The report is especially useful for:
- Purchasing departments of retailers, wholesalers, installers looking for different types of suitable panels |
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Methodology |
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ENF’s Trade Department has been keeping a good track of 88 Chinese panel manufacturers, often with records beginning before they had been issued with certification.
ENF has sorted information freely available from company websites and combined it with information gathered first hand from individual companies. ENF’s trade department has been collecting and organising this information on the Chinese manufacturers for the past 3 years – and a large amount of additional resource was assigned to ensuring all the specifications collected by the trade team were up-to-date, and in contact many companies whose specification data appeared ambiguous and needed to be verified. In all ENF has directly contacted 13 out of 88 manufacturers to supplement and verify data.
Because panel specifications are often displayed in different confusing ways by each manufacturer, technical data collected on each panel has been entered into a standardised format so that all panels from various manufacturers can be compared. |
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Coverage |
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The survey covers the current 88 manufacturers from China who have at least one European or American certification.
Company background info:
Detailed panel specifications: |
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Detailed information collected |
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The report is split into 3 main parts: |
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1. Individual Profile
For each certified Chinese company, we provide 2 PowerPoint slides containing
Background Information
Production Information
Range of certified Panels
Charts also show if the panels have been approved for some specific country programs (Low Building Carbon Program in UK – Korean certificate – Californian Incentives Program) |
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Sample Slides (please click for larger image): |
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2. Document Folder For each certified Chinese company, a related folder contains PDF files showing each company’s specifications, certifications and their usual warranty conditions |
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Sample Slides (please click for larger image): |
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3. Data File Through the user-friendly Excel file, you can easily find solar panels with different power ranges certified by different laboratories. Details of all 1700 panels to sort the suitable panels by:
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| Note: The different colours indicate different laboratories issuing the same type of certificate | |||||||||
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| Organization of the Report Our user friendly Excel file allows you to sort panels according to your specific requirements; a few clicks will be enough to find products able to meet your specific needs. |
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Case Illustration |
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The following is an example of how a buyer can use this report to find suitable partners and products to suit their needs. In this example a buyer is looking for:
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| * Note: The company name and model name are anonymous in the data file here | |||||||||
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| Report Pricing |
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The report pack contains:
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| For further queries about this report please contact Kit Temple, kit@enf.cn | |||||||||
