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Data reportAll categories28 September 2026

What frontier products still need before they can be scored.

Every frontier evidence page says why its product cannot be scored yet. Read together, they point to the same few missing documents, and to the products closest to a score.

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Methodology & Standards · 4 min read

Start from a question

What are you deciding?

Five buying questions and a sixth on where the technology is heading, each with the Findings that answer it. 47 of the 49 Findings answer at least one, and some answer more than one.

Is the warranty worth anything?

6 Findings · The terms, their conditions, and who stands behind them.

6 records, first published 26 Jul to 23 Aug. 5 updated since.

Is it approved and sold where I live?

11 Findings · Listings, approvals and regulator actions.

4 records, 3 regulator notices, 3 data reports and 1 technical reference, first published 17 Jul to 17 Sep. 6 updated since.

Also at the top of this page: the SigenStack code change, the Smart Lifestyle de-listing, the NeoVolt suspension, the approved-list record and the US Covered List change.

Will it hold up on my roof?

6 Findings · Heat, glass, ageing and outages.

3 laboratory results, 1 record, 1 technical reference and 1 data report, first published 19 Jun to 23 Aug. 3 updated since.

Is the maker still standing?

6 Findings · Filings and corporate records.

4 filings and 2 records, first published 25 Jun to 19 Aug. None updated since.

How far can I trust a score?

10 Findings · The method and its limits.

9 data reports and 1 laboratory result, first published 1 Jul to 28 Sep. 2 updated since.

Also at the top of this page: the lead piece and two pieces beside it.

Where is the technology heading?

9 Findings · Market data, technology shifts and scenarios.

5 data reports, 2 roadmaps, 1 technical reference and 1 laboratory result, first published 26 Jun to 20 Sep. None updated since.

The record

Every Finding, by date and by the kind of source it rests on

Each dot is a Finding, placed at its first publication date. A filled dot has been updated since, and its line runs to the latest update. A larger dot links more product pages.

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All 49 Findings as a list
  1. What frontier products still need before they can be scored.Data report · 28 Sep · 4 min
  2. A few places in the rankings can mean less than half a point.Data report · 27 Sep · 2 min
  3. Frontier products we can describe but not yet score.Data report · 27 Sep · 4 min
  4. What changed in the benchmark in August 2026.Data report · 27 Sep · 7 min
  5. Two makers hold a number one for the same half-year, and both are quoting a tracker accurately.Data report · 20 Sep · 6 min
  6. Two listing actions took effect this week. The approved list recorded the suspension as an expiry date and the de-listing not at all.Record · 17 Sep · 6 min
  7. Eight Smart Lifestyle models were de-listed after the supplier's liquidation, and all eight are still on the approved list.Regulator notice · Updated 20 Sep · 7 min
  8. The Clean Energy Council suspended seven NeoVolt battery models and has since reinstated one.Regulator notice · Updated 9 Oct · 6 min
  9. 140 Australian purchase-priority products clear the local evidence gate. 2 remain in review.Data report · Updated 9 Oct · 7 min
  10. The United States now gates new inverter authorisations on where a product is made, not on who makes it.Regulator notice · 28 Aug · 5 min
  11. The blackout test: 21 home batteries judged on one question.Data report · 23 Aug · 8 min
  12. The degradation trap: what a battery warranty can and cannot tell you.Record · Updated 19 Sep · 5 min
  13. Two Sigenergy battery controllers will share one model name. Only one of them takes the new accessory.Technical reference · 20 Aug · 5 min
  14. Tesla's solar panel really is 20.5 per cent efficient. What moved is the factory, not the datasheet.Filing · 19 Aug · 6 min
  15. A panel outlives its warranty by design. Not every maker has published where it goes next.Record · Updated 9 Oct · 7 min
  16. 39 German product checks show why brand presence is not model availability.Data report · Updated 19 Sep · 6 min
  17. 58 Australian warranty records. Only 3 state labour or service cover without a condition.Record · Updated 19 Sep · 6 min
  18. 70 of 80 Australian approval events resolve to exact product identities.Data report · Updated 14 Sep · 6 min
  19. A specification score cannot know your roof, your grid, or an installer's own record with a product. We have written that limit down.Data report · Updated 19 Sep · 5 min
  20. Anker SOLIX X1 is one name for three different buying architectures.Technical reference · Updated 31 Aug · 7 min
  21. We re-sourced the catalogue against exact-product documents. 70 scores moved, most of them down.Data report · 1 Aug · 6 min
  22. An estimate and a datasheet figure used to score the same. They no longer do.Data report · 31 Jul · 5 min
  23. Four makers on this benchmark did not stay the same company. Only one of those is an insolvency.Record · 31 Jul · 8 min
  24. The same filing that carries SolarEdge's loss also carries six quarters of margin expansion.Filing · 29 Jul · 7 min
  25. Three names on a spec sheet. Only one of them is about quality.Laboratory result · 29 Jul · 8 min
  26. Two Trina panels both say 515 W. One reaches it on 6% less roof.Technical reference · Updated 9 Oct · 6 min
  27. 100% of active benchmark criteria have a direct source link.Data report · Updated 9 Oct · 6 min
  28. 45 Australian inverter records clear the buyer-ready gate. 2 do not.Record · Updated 5 Oct · 7 min
  29. 52 panels promise 25 years or more. 11 cover parts only.Record · Updated 9 Oct · 9 min
  30. A battery warranty is a term, a throughput limit and a company standing behind both.Record · Updated 5 Oct · 7 min
  31. A metering accessory is where a vendor's market intent shows up first.Technical reference · 23 Jul · 5 min
  32. A vehicle compatibility list is not a manufacturer certification.Record · 20 Jul · 6 min
  33. A global score is not an Australian shopping list.Record · 17 Jul · 7 min
  34. The sunniest market is not the fastest solar payback.Data report · 11 Jul · 11 min
  35. SolarEdge's financial record through Q1 2026: the context behind a 25-year warranty.Filing · 10 Jul · 11 min
  36. Home battery storage's breakout year: the 2025 data, and what Australia just proved.Data report · 8 Jul · 8 min
  37. Six architectures, one recombination chain: how silicon solar cells closed in on their physical ceiling.Laboratory result · 7 Jul · 10 min
  38. The chemistry that won wasn't the one that launched the category.Record · 6 Jul · 10 min
  39. Mono-silicon's 2030 mix: three scenarios, and six roadmap calls the data already overtook.Roadmap · 5 Jul · 9 min
  40. One name, three companies: SunPower's long unravelling, and its unlikely survival.Filing · 4 Jul · 14 min
  41. The inverter decade, in the figures that survive a source check.Data report · 3 Jul · 9 min
  42. The electrification shift, projected: three scenarios to 2035.Roadmap · 2 Jul · 15 min
  43. Battery rubric v2.3: three structural changes and the evidence behind them.Data report · 1 Jul · 9 min
  44. The hardware is commoditised. The software that runs it can't prove its claims.Technical reference · 30 Jun · 10 min
  45. The warranty says 0.25% a year. The desert measured 8.7% in three.Laboratory result · 29 Jun · 8 min
  46. The glass beneath the glass: why 'dual glass' stopped describing one thing.Laboratory result · Updated 19 Sep · 12 min
  47. The global electrification shift: a decade of cause and consequence, 2015 to 2025.Data report · 26 Jun · 16 min
  48. The Panasonic EverVolt: fifty years of HJT, and the structural economics that ended them.Record · 25 Jun · 13 min
  49. Two 400 W panels, one hot roof, 14 watts apart: what temperature coefficient predicts that efficiency alone doesn't.Laboratory result · Updated 19 Sep · 12 min