{"id":49013,"date":"2021-04-02T05:24:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T18:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=49013"},"modified":"2021-04-02T05:24:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T18:54:16","slug":"ja-solar-deepblue-mb1940","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/ja-solar-deepblue-mb1940\/","title":{"rendered":"JA Solar&#8217;s 415-Watt Solar Panel For Residential Installations Unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49014\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ja-solar-deepblue.jpg\" alt=\"JA Solar - 415-watt DeepBlue 3.0 Light\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ja-solar-deepblue.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ja-solar-deepblue-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ja-solar-deepblue-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ja-solar-deepblue-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another high-power solar panel will be hitting the residential PV market &#8211; JA Solar&#8217;s 415-watt DeepBlue 3.0 Light. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The company launched the new line, designed for commercial and residential rooftops, at the 16th China Solar Utilization Convention and Exhibition (&#8220;SUCE&#8221;) in Jinan last week.<\/p>\n<p>The DeepBlue 3.0 series was originally launched by JA Solar back in May last year and mass production started in August 2020. Developed for non-rooftop applications, the original series are pretty hefty panels. The 550W module is 2279mm x 1124mm and tips the scales at 28.6 kilograms.<\/p>\n<p>JA Solar says the new Light series has all the benefits of DeepBlue 3.0 technology, such as PERC-based PERCIUM+ cell technology and Ga-doped silicon wafers. The new panels are a 54 cell (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/half-cut-solar-cells-panels\/\">half-cell<\/a> &#8211; so 108 cells) module, reportedly 1722mm x 1134mm, weighing 21.5kg and with a conversion efficiency of 21.3% for the 415W module.<\/p>\n<p>JA Solar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasolar.com.cn\/index.php?m=content&amp;c=index&amp;a=show&amp;catid=399&amp;id=93\">commented<\/a> DeepBlue Light has successfully passed testing conducted by T\u00dcV S\u00dcD to the standards for IEC 61215 and IEC 61730 certification. A data sheet for the DeepBlue 3.0 Light wasn&#8217;t available from the company&#8217;s web site at the time of publishing (unless I missed it).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear when\u00a0 DeepBlue 3.0 Light will be available to purchase, but when they are the panels will be shipped to customers globally &#8211; so it looks like Australian solar buyers should (hopefully) soon have more choice of high-power modules.<\/p>\n<p>On a related note, competing panel manufacturing goliath JinkoSolar recently announced it was launching a new line of high-power <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/jinkosolar-tiger-pro-mb1935\/\">Tiger Pro solar panels<\/a> it says are suitable for use on residential, commercial and industrial rooftops.<\/p>\n<p>The Tiger Pro 415-watt is around the same dimensions as the JA Solar DeepBlue 3.0 Light 415W, but is 1.5kg heavier. Efficiencies of the two are around the same. It&#8217;s assumed the JA Solar panel will have a 12 year product warranty, whereas Jinko&#8217;s will be 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re considering buying a PV system and need some help with module selection, pick up some<a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/\"> tips on choosing solar panels<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>A Bit About JA Solar<\/h2>\n<p>Founded in 2005, Beijing-headquartered JA Solar has 12 manufacturing locations, most of which are in China. The company&#8217;s 2019 shipments saw it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-shipments-rankings-mb1405\/\">ranked second<\/a> among manufacturers for that year (Jinko was no.1). JA Solar has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pv-tech.org\/ja-solars-pv-module-shipments-increased-over-54-in-2020\/\">reported<\/a> PV module shipments of 15.88GW for last year, up 54.8% on 2019. As some of the other major players are yet to provide figures for 2020, it&#8217;s not clear yet where the company ranked for shipments last year.<\/p>\n<p>The firm established a presence in the Australian market in 2013. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/ja-solar-review.html\">JA Solar panel reviews<\/a> here on SolarQuotes are generally positive and the company is currently listed by SQ as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/solar101.html#panelchart\">trusted brand<\/a>; towards the budget end of the chart.<\/p>\n<h2>Where Is Jin Baofang?<\/h2>\n<p>The company&#8217;s Chairman and CEO is Jin Baofang &#8211; a very wealthy fellow. In November last year it was reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/ja-solar-chairman-mb1755\/\">he had been detained<\/a> by the supervisory commission of Pingdu city, which is in China&#8217;s north-eastern province of Shandong. There have been no further updates on his status I&#8217;m aware of, and there haven&#8217;t been any releases from the company quoting Mr. Baofang since November that I&#8217;ve seen. 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