Buyer’s Guide 2022
Best Solar Inverters for Homes
EnergyPal offers the best solar inverters for homes by value, price, wattage & warranty. Our 2022 Buyer’s Guide reviews Enphase, SolarEdge, Fronius, SMA, and Huawei.
It’s easy to focus on watts, efficiency, or price, but what’s also important is making sure you consider features like warranty and system monitoring to help determine what set-up is right for you.
- Efficiency up to 98%
- 5 year Standard Warranty, 10 year warranty free of charge if registered online
- Manufactured in Austria
- Need Fronius Smart Meter to enable monitoring of consumption and generation. Fronius Solarweb app is highly rated but only available with a premium subscription
- Efficiency up to 99%
- 12 year Warranty on Inverters, warranty extension available. 25 year warranty on Optimizers
- Manufactured in Hungary and China
- Addition of Optional WiFi enabled inverters can provide panel level monitoring. SolarEdge monitoring system generally reviewed as one of the best available
- Efficiency up to 97%
- Optional 10-20 year warranty
- Designed and Manufactured in Germany
- Free online monitoring in the Sunny portal, but full consumption and solar monitoring requires expensive Sunny home manager 2.0
- Efficiency up to 96.5%
- 25 year warranty
- Designed in USA, assembled internationally in Mexico and India
- Enlighten app is free for system owners. Requires additional hardware to monitor consumption
- Efficiency up to 98.6
- Warranty 5-10 years depending on model
- Designed and Manufactured in China
- FusionSolar app available through direct connection to WiFi network
All Solar Inverter Manufacturers
ABB (now Fimer)
ABLEREX Electronics
Advanced Energy Industries Inc.
Advanced Solar Photonics
AE Solar Energy
AEconversion GmbH
AEG Power Solutions
Aero-Sharp
Agepower Limit
Alpha Technologies
American Electric Technologies
AMETEK Solidstate Control
Andalay
Apparent
APsystems
Aptos Solar Technology
AU Optronics
Auxin
Ballard Power Systems
Beacon Power
Beijing Kinglong New Energy Technology
Beyond Building Group
Beyond Building Systems
Canadian Solar Inc.
Carlo Gavazzi
CFM Equipment Distributors
Changzhou Nesl Solartech
Chiconypower
Chilicon Power
Chint Power
Concept by US
Connect Renewable Energy
Danfoss
Darfon Electronics Corp.
DASS tech
Delta Electronics
Destin Power Inc.
Diehl AKO Stiftung
Direct Grid Technologies
Dow Chemical
E-Village
Eaton
Elettronica Santerno
Eltek Valere, Inc.
Emerson Network Power
Enecsys Limited
EnluxSolar
Enphase Energy
Eoplly USA, INC.
ET Solar Inc.
ETM Electromatic
Exeltech
FIMER
Flextronics Industrial
Friem
Fronius USA, LLC
FSP Group
GAF
GE Energy
Gefran
Generac
Geoprotek Technology
Green Power Technologies
GreenVolts
GridPoint
Growatt
Hansol
Heart Transverter
Helios USA
HiQ
HiSEL Power
Home Director
Hoymiles Converter Technology
Hoymiles Converter Technology Co., Ltd.
Huawei Technologies USA
HYOSUNG
i-Energy
Ideal Power Converters, Inc.
INGETEAM
Involar
iPower
Jema Energy
Jiangsu Zeversolar New Energy
Jiangyin Hareon Power
KACO New Energy
Kostal Solar Electric
Leadsolar Energy
Leatec Fine Ceramics
LG
Lion Energy
Lixma Tech
MAGE SOLAR, Inc.
Ming Shen Energy Technology
Mohr Power
Motech Americas LLC
NeoVolta Inc.
Nextronex Energy Systems
Nidec ASI
Ningbo Ginlong Technologies Co.,Ltd.
Northern Electric
Northern Electric & Power
Northern Electric & Power Co., Ltd
Open Energy
OPTI International
OPTI-Solar
OutBack Power
Perfect Galaxy
Perfect Galaxy International Ltd
Petra
Phoenixtec Power
Phono Solar Technology Co., Ltd.
Pika Energy (now Generac)
Power Electronics
Power-One, Inc
Powercom
Princeton Power Systems
PV Powered
Q Cells
REFU Elektronik
Refusol
Renergy
ReneSola Ltd.
Renovo Power Systems
Resonix
Rhombus Energy Solutions
RITEK
Sainty
Samil Power
SanRex
SatCon Technology Corporation
Schneider Electric
Schuco
Shanghai Aero-Sharp Electric Technologies
Sharp
Shenzhen BYD
Shenzhen Sinexcel Electric Co., Ltd
Siemens Industry, Inc.
Silicon Energy
SMA America
Sol-Ark (Portable Solar LLC)
Solar Bridge
Solar Liberty
Solar Power
Solarbine
SolarCity (Tesla Energy)
SolarEdge Technologies
Solargate
Solaria
SolarMax Group
Solectria Renewables
Sonnetek
Sparq Systems
Sputnik Engineering
Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd.
Sunna Tech
SunPower
Sunset
Sustainable Energy Technologies
Sysgration
Tabuchi Electric America
Talesun Solar Co.
Tesla
Tigo Energy
TMEIC
Topper Sun Energy Technology
Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation
Ubiquiti Networks International
Westinghouse
Xantrex
Xslent Energy Technologies
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Zhongli Talesun
Zigor