{"id":24751,"date":"2018-10-03T06:37:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T20:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=24751"},"modified":"2018-10-08T13:19:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T02:49:57","slug":"winaico-solar-panels-mb0769","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/winaico-solar-panels-mb0769\/","title":{"rendered":"New Solar Panels From Winaico Available In Australia Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24752\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/winaico-solar-panels.jpg\" alt=\"Winaico solar panels\" width=\"800\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/winaico-solar-panels.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/winaico-solar-panels-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/winaico-solar-panels-768x541.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Australian subsidiary of Taiwan&#8217;s largest solar panel manufacturer, Winaico, will unveil new products for the local market today.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Winaico tends to be a quiet achiever on the solar panel scene &#8211; just getting on with the job. But at an All Energy Conference breakfast event this morning, the company will be crowing about three new panels.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WSP335-MX &#8211; 335W panel<\/li>\n<li>WSP320-MX &#8211; a 320W all-black module<\/li>\n<li>WST310-M6 &#8211; 310W monocrystalline module, replacing WST285-P6 Series<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry, that&#8217;s all the info I have at this time &#8211; but Winaico Australia&#8217;s Managing Director was pretty excited. So much so the company issued a press release; something Winaico doesn&#8217;t do a lot of.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWINAICO\u2019s R&amp;D team has been hard at work not only developing these fantastic products but making them available in full scale production,&#8221; said Managing Director Blair Pester. &#8220;These modules have endured the gruelling new 2016 versions of the IEC61215-1\/2 and IEC61730-1\/2 tests and will be available for purchase from our East Coast Warehouses from December.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No doubt there will be further information on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winaico.com\/en\/products\/\"> Winaico web site<\/a> very soon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/winaico-review.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Winaico solar panels<\/a> have generally met with positive feedback here on SolarQuotes, with a current very respectable rating of 4.59 out of 5 from 41 reviews submitted by Australians who have had the panels installed for at least a year.<\/p>\n<p>Winaico panels are included on SolarQuotes&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/solar-brands-trust.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trusted solar brands chart<\/a> and offer a product warranty of 15 years; while many manufacturers still offer 10. The product warranty shouldn&#8217;t be confused with a performance warranty, which is the standard 25 years. Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-panel-warranty-paradox\/\">product vs. performance warranties<\/a> (and why many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/performance-warranties-still-crap\/\">performance warranties still leave a lot to be desired<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>You can check out the performance of some Winaico solar panels installed in Australia without leaving your chair courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/dkasolarcentre.com.au\/locations\/alice-springs\/graphs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this page<\/a> on the Desert Knowledge Australia Solar Centre (DKASC). A 5.3kW system was installed there back in 2012<\/p>\n<p>Winaico is based in Taiwan, with subsidiaries and branches in Asia, Australia (Sydney), USA, and Europe. The Australian presence has been around for quite a while &#8211; since 2012. The parent company is a subsidiary of Taiwan&#8217;s Win Win Precision Technology, which has operating since 2003. In 2007, Win Win Precision Technology was restructured into semiconductor and solar divisions.<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-AU\">Earlier this year, Winaico was awarded the Top PV Brand Seal for Australia and Germany by European research firm EuPD. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian subsidiary of Taiwan&#8217;s largest solar panel manufacturer, Winaico, will unveil new products for the local market today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":24752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-battery-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New Solar Panels From Winaico Available In Australia Soon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Australian subsidiary of Taiwan&#039;s largest solar panel manufacturer, Winaico, will unveil new products for the local market today.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/winaico-solar-panels-mb0769\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Solar Panels From Winaico Available In Australia Soon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Australian subsidiary of Taiwan&#039;s largest solar panel manufacturer, Winaico, will unveil new products for the local market today.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/winaico-solar-panels-mb0769\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SolarQuotes Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SolarQuotes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-10-02T20:07:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-10-08T02:49:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/winaico-solar-panels.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"564\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Bloch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/winaico-solar-panels-mb0769\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/winaico-solar-panels-mb0769\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"New Solar Panels From Winaico Available In Australia Soon\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-10-02T20:07:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-10-08T02:49:57+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/winaico-solar-panels-mb0769\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":411,\"commentCount\":2,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/winaico-solar-panels-mb0769\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/winaico-solar-panels.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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