Brands by installer support
Which solar brands can you actually get serviced here?
78 brands appear across the 390 businesses in this directory, and the spread is enormous: Sunsynk is carried by 255 of them, while dozens of brands are carried by two or three. That gap matters more than any specification sheet once something needs replacing under warranty.
Why installer count is the number to look at
A ten-year battery warranty is a promise about the next ten years of someone being around, holding stock, and willing to come out. Brands carried by many local installers have distributors with stock on the ground, technicians who have seen the failure modes, and competition on the repair price. Brands carried by two businesses in the country leave you dependent on those two, and on an import cycle when a part is needed.
This is not a quality ranking. Some excellent equipment appears low on this list because it entered the market recently or targets commercial work, and some widely carried brands are widely carried because they are cheap. Read it as an availability and support map, then judge the equipment itself on its own page.
Brands with broad local support (62)
Carried by 4 or more of the businesses listed here. Each page shows where those installers are, what they pair the brand with, and how deep the coverage is in your province.
Sunsynk
255 of 390 installers
South Africa's most popular hybrid inverter
Deye
230 of 390 installers
High-value hybrid inverters
Victron
218 of 390 installers
Premium European engineering
Canadian Solar
101 of 390 installers
Tier-1 global solar leader
JA Solar
101 of 390 installers
World's largest panel manufacturer
Must
78 of 390 installers
Budget-friendly power solutions
Freedom Won
75 of 390 installers
Proudly South African lithium batteries
Dyness
71 of 390 installers
Smart energy storage solutions
Jinko Solar
65 of 390 installers
Leading Tiger Neo technology
Growatt
60 of 390 installers
Global solar leader
Hubble
60 of 390 installers
SA's fastest-growing battery brand
LuxPower
60 of 390 installers
Affordable hybrid solutions
Pylontech
57 of 390 installers
World's leading lithium battery manufacturer
Volta
56 of 390 installers
SA-assembled lithium batteries
Sungrow
53 of 390 installers
World's most bankable inverter brand
Solis
52 of 390 installers
LONGi
50 of 390 installers
World's most valuable solar company
Huawei
49 of 390 installers
Smart PV solutions
Atess
44 of 390 installers
Energy storage specialists
Shoto
42 of 390 installers
Industrial-grade energy storage
LiFePO4
40 of 390 installers
Lithium Ion
40 of 390 installers
Revov
39 of 390 installers
Second-life battery pioneers
SMA
39 of 390 installers
German engineering excellence
GoodWe
37 of 390 installers
Smart energy technology
Fronius
36 of 390 installers
Austrian quality inverters
Tier 1
29 of 390 installers
Trina Solar
29 of 390 installers
Vertex S innovation leader
Mecer
27 of 390 installers
Local backup power solutions
Bifacial
26 of 390 installers
BlueNova
26 of 390 installers
Premium South African batteries
Kodak
24 of 390 installers
Trusted name in solar
Tesla Powerwall
24 of 390 installers
The original home battery
BYD
23 of 390 installers
Global energy technology leader
Fox ESS
22 of 390 installers
Smart energy storage systems
SolarMD
20 of 390 installers
SRNE
20 of 390 installers
Axpert
19 of 390 installers
Popular budget hybrid inverter
N-Type
14 of 390 installers
SolarEdge
14 of 390 installers
Schneider
12 of 390 installers
SunPower
12 of 390 installers
Premium efficiency leader
Voltronic
12 of 390 installers
BOS
10 of 390 installers
Seraphim
10 of 390 installers
SolaX
10 of 390 installers
Felicity
9 of 390 installers
Affordable off-grid solutions
BSLBATT
8 of 390 installers
Chint
8 of 390 installers
TOPCon
8 of 390 installers
Half-Cell
6 of 390 installers
Narada
6 of 390 installers
Reliable energy storage
Victron Energy
6 of 390 installers
Premium European engineering
Felicity Solar
5 of 390 installers
Affordable off-grid solutions
ABB
4 of 390 installers
Axitec
4 of 390 installers
Delta
4 of 390 installers
Enphase
4 of 390 installers
Mono PERC
4 of 390 installers
OutBack
4 of 390 installers
Phocos
4 of 390 installers
Trojan
4 of 390 installers
Brands with thin local support (16)
Carried by fewer than 4 listed businesses. Not a warning about the equipment, but a warning about what happens if it fails: ask specifically who services it in your province and whether replacement stock is held in South Africa before you accept a quote built around one of these.