If you mention the manufacturer of solar panels in the USA, it is impossible not to miss First Solar. This is the largest manufacturer in the USA, and the products will usually serve residential, commercial, and utility areas.

First Solar, founded in 1999, is a leading company in providing solar energy in the form of solar panels to fight climate change, save materials, and meet the needs of users of everyone's solar power.

The company is said to be unique among the world's largest solar panel manufacturers as it is based only in the United States and does not manufacture in China. First Solar's advanced thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules are manufactured on a continuous, vertically integrated process that turns glass panels into fully operational solar panels in about four hours with a combination of highly skilled workers and industry 4.0 architecture.

DETAILED INFORMATION:

• Founded: 1999
• Headquarters: Tempe, Arizona, USA
• Website: https://www.firstsolar.com/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/FirstSolar

Qcells was established in 1999 and is a company under the leadership of Hanwha Solutions based in Korea. Offices of diverse international production facilities in Korea, Malaysia, and China. It currently supplies many residential solar panels in the United States.

They are now gradually expanding their business in major countries around the world. The goal of the expansion is to create a novelty in the domestic supply of solar energy by going from poly-raw silicon to the production of solar silicon wafers, solar cells, and finally modules.

The Q. ANTUM DUO Z technology being applied to Qcells' solar cell production has been guaranteed a first-class efficiency of 98% in the first year and 86% after 25 years. With more than 23 GW of Q. ANTUM solar cells in production, Qcells has shown everyone the experience and knowledge driving the development of cell and module technology and the launch of new technologies such as Q. ANTUM DUO Z.

DETAILED INFORMATION:

• Founded: 1999
• Headquarters: Seoul, South Korea
• Website: https://www.q-cells.eu/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Qcells_EU

Silfab Solar is a leading North American manufacturing company in the design and development of super-high-energy and efficient solar panels. Their headquarters are in Ontario, and there are more employees there than in the United States.

They leverage their 40 years of experience in solar energy research and operations off campuses in Bellingham and Burlington, Washington, and Toronto, Canada. Silfab has always designed and manufactured solar panels suitable for the North American environment.

Technologies they use, such as advanced robotics and automation, have been applied to the production process of reliable, high-quality, efficient solar panels with one of the lowest failure rates in the industry.

In 2023, Silfab introduced us to the latest Elite series solar panel, which has been improved to conduct electricity from solar cells instead of wire busbars, which can reduce power output.

DETAILED INFORMATION:

• Founded: 2010
• Headquarter: Toronto, Canada
• Website: https://silfabsolar.com/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SilfabSolar/

Jinko Solar is one of the leading solar panel manufacturers in the United States. It is in charge of distributing solar energy products, mainly high-efficiency solar panels for residential and utility systems. The company distributes diversified products in more than 80 countries worldwide.

Jinko Solar is currently using a vertically integrated manufacturing method from silicon material handling to manufacturing wafers, cells, and modules in the industry. It is now considered a manufacturer with many global production bases because it owns 14 facilities in China, the United States, Malaysia, and Vietnam.

Jinko Solar continuously shows customers diverse applications, including photovoltaic technology, photovoltaic hydrogen production, energy storage, and other fields, and creates a new energy ecosystem for solar.

DETAILED INFORMATION:

• Founded: 2006
• Headquarters: Shanghai, China
• Website: https://www.jinkosolar.com/en
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jinkosolar/

Mission Solar, a subsidiary of OCI Korea, always produces solar panels with a capacity of 300 MW per year. Headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, it was established in 2014. Current products manufactured by Mission all have a capacity of 200 MW in the form of p-type monocrystalline PERC solar cells.

Trust their products, as they are all certified under standard reliability regulations. However, what makes Mission Solar not as famous as current competitors such as First Solar or Jinko Solar is that it does not apply newer technologies to solar panels but only follows traditional manufacturing regulations, so it is not possible to increase the product's high performance in the same period.

DETAILED INFORMATION:

• Founded: 2014
• Headquarters: San Antonio, Texas
• Website: https://www.missionsolar.com/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/missionsolarenergy