Brands by installer support
Which solar brands can you actually get serviced here?
73 brands appear across the 367 businesses in this directory, and the spread is enormous: Sunsynk is carried by 231 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 (60)
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
231 of 367 installers
South Africa's most popular hybrid inverter
Victron
213 of 367 installers
Premium European engineering
Deye
210 of 367 installers
High-value hybrid inverters
Canadian Solar
88 of 367 installers
Tier-1 global solar leader
JA Solar
86 of 367 installers
World's largest panel manufacturer
Must
72 of 367 installers
Budget-friendly power solutions
Freedom Won
66 of 367 installers
Proudly South African lithium batteries
Dyness
58 of 367 installers
Smart energy storage solutions
Growatt
54 of 367 installers
Global solar leader
Jinko Solar
52 of 367 installers
Leading Tiger Neo technology
LuxPower
50 of 367 installers
Affordable hybrid solutions
Hubble
48 of 367 installers
SA's fastest-growing battery brand
Solis
48 of 367 installers
Volta
48 of 367 installers
SA-assembled lithium batteries
Pylontech
46 of 367 installers
World's leading lithium battery manufacturer
Huawei
42 of 367 installers
Smart PV solutions
Sungrow
42 of 367 installers
World's most bankable inverter brand
LiFePO4
40 of 367 installers
Lithium Ion
40 of 367 installers
LONGi
40 of 367 installers
World's most valuable solar company
Shoto
36 of 367 installers
Industrial-grade energy storage
Atess
34 of 367 installers
Energy storage specialists
Revov
34 of 367 installers
Second-life battery pioneers
SMA
34 of 367 installers
German engineering excellence
Fronius
32 of 367 installers
Austrian quality inverters
GoodWe
30 of 367 installers
Smart energy technology
Tier 1
28 of 367 installers
Bifacial
26 of 367 installers
Mecer
24 of 367 installers
Local backup power solutions
Trina Solar
22 of 367 installers
Vertex S innovation leader
Kodak
21 of 367 installers
Trusted name in solar
BlueNova
20 of 367 installers
Premium South African batteries
BYD
20 of 367 installers
Global energy technology leader
Fox ESS
20 of 367 installers
Smart energy storage systems
SolarMD
20 of 367 installers
SRNE
20 of 367 installers
Tesla Powerwall
20 of 367 installers
The original home battery
Axpert
14 of 367 installers
Popular budget hybrid inverter
N-Type
14 of 367 installers
SolarEdge
14 of 367 installers
Schneider
12 of 367 installers
Voltronic
12 of 367 installers
BOS
10 of 367 installers
Seraphim
10 of 367 installers
SolaX
10 of 367 installers
Felicity
9 of 367 installers
Affordable off-grid solutions
BSLBATT
8 of 367 installers
Chint
8 of 367 installers
TOPCon
8 of 367 installers
Half-Cell
6 of 367 installers
ABB
4 of 367 installers
Axitec
4 of 367 installers
Delta
4 of 367 installers
Enphase
4 of 367 installers
Mono PERC
4 of 367 installers
Narada
4 of 367 installers
Reliable energy storage
OutBack
4 of 367 installers
Phocos
4 of 367 installers
SunPower
4 of 367 installers
Premium efficiency leader
Trojan
4 of 367 installers
Brands with thin local support (13)
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.