Solar modules, inverters and batteries perform different jobs. Architecture shows where generation, conversion and storage sit before a score or sales bundle enters the decision.
324 products classified4 inverter architectures3 battery couplings10 module technologies
An all-in-one product can package conversion and storage together. A DC-coupled battery leaves conversion elsewhere. A microinverter moves conversion to the roof. These are purchasing architectures, not quality rankings.
The inverter is the control plane of most modern residential systems, but the exact scope varies.
Converts PV string DC into grid-connected AC.
Converts solar DC to AC and exposes a documented storage pathway, often through additional equipment.
Manages PV, battery DC and household AC through the inverter platform.
Converts DC to AC at each solar module rather than at one central string inverter.
Coupling describes where conversion occurs. It does not determine battery quality or approve an installation.
Stores DC energy and relies on system power electronics outside the battery product for household AC.
Includes battery-side power conversion and connects on the household AC side.
Presents storage and power conversion as one integrated product or product platform.
One level below the module: where the contacts sit and what the junction is made of. Structure only. None of this ranks a cell or predicts a yield.
An n-type wafer with a very thin tunnel oxide and a doped poly-silicon layer behind the rear contact, so the contact passivates the surface instead of degrading it.
58 live records on this benchmark
A crystalline wafer sandwiched between thin amorphous silicon films that passivate both surfaces, with transparent conductive oxide and a grid on each face.
6 live records on this benchmark
Both contact polarities are interdigitated across the rear, so the front face carries no metal at all. Several vendor names share the rear-contact arrangement; the implementations behind them do not.
12 live records on this benchmark
Two stacked junctions divide the spectrum: a wide-bandgap perovskite cell over a silicon cell, joined by a recombination layer.
2 live records on this benchmark
Cell architecture is a manufacturing choice, not a score. Two modules built the same way can sit far apart on this benchmark: the widest gap inside a single architecture here is 29 points, among Heterojunction (HJT) records. The scored record is always the exact model, never the family.
Ten purchase-priority, buyer-ready records per category. Ranking remains inside each product's scoring class.
| Product | Architecture | Published range | Phase | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SH10RS Single-Phase HybridSungrow · AU priority 1 | Hybrid inverterWhole-home capability recorded | 10 kW | Single phase | 83/ 100 |
| Verto PlusFronius · AU priority 1 | Hybrid inverterWhole-home capability recorded | 15–33.3 kW | Three phase | 82/ 100 |
| SH5T / SH10T Three-PhaseSungrow · AU priority 1 | Hybrid inverterWhole-home capability recorded | 5–10 kW | Three phase | 81/ 100 |
| SH5.0/6.0RSSungrow · AU priority 1 | Hybrid inverterEssential-load capability recorded | 5–6 kW | Single phase | 78/ 100 |
| HIT L G3Hoymiles · AU priority 1 | Hybrid inverterEssential-load capability recorded | 12–20 kW | Three phase | 77/ 100 |
| ESA G20 Power ModuleGoodWe · AU priority 1 | Hybrid inverterWhole-home capability recorded | 3–9.999 kW | Single phase | 76/ 100 |
| ASW H-S2Solplanet · AU priority 1 | Hybrid inverterEssential-load capability recorded | 3–6 kW | Single phase | 71/ 100 |
| DNS G4GoodWe · AU priority 1 | Solar-only string inverterNo native backup recorded | 3–6 kW | Single phase | 69/ 100 |
| SG RSSungrow · AU priority 1 | Solar-only string inverterNo native backup recorded | 5–10 kW | Single phase | 68/ 100 |
| IQ9N-A MicroinverterEnphase · AU priority 1 | MicroinverterNot recorded | 0.427 kW | Single phase | 63/ 100 |
Architecture describes where conversion and storage functions sit. It does not establish site suitability, an equipment pairing, installation design or network approval.
Architecture classification comes from the curated product identity and source-backed specification records. It remains separate from site design, price, network approval and installer acceptance.