{"id":9427,"date":"2017-03-17T18:30:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T08:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=9427"},"modified":"2025-07-29T09:45:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T00:15:54","slug":"onesolar-review-one-word-avoid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/onesolar-review-one-word-avoid\/","title":{"rendered":"OneSolar Review. One Word: Avoid"},"content":{"rendered":"
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OneSolar make a lot a lot of claims on their website that just don’t stack up.<\/p><\/div>\n

When it comes to choosing solar panels and inverters, we recommend sticking to well known brands.<\/p>\n

Over the years we’ve seen lots of obscure\u00a0panel brands hit Australian shores, often with slick websites, and almost always with dubious claims of being ‘engineered’ in anywhere-but-China.<\/p>\n

Our experience is that the quality of these mysterious\u00a0brands is often poor, and if\u00a0they fail a few years down the line it can be very hard to find the company that originally imported or manufactured them.<\/p>\n

An example of a panel and inverter brand\u00a0we would not recommend is\u00a0OneSolar\u00a01<\/a><\/sup>. \u00a0We’ve seen reports that these panels are currently being offered for sale by various solar marketing companies.<\/p>\n

OneSolar’s\u00a0Australian headquarters are a serviced office<\/a> in\u00a0Sydney. \u00a0The website says it is “Copyright \u00a9 2017 OneSolar Pty Ltd.”. Unfortunately, according to ASIC there is no such company<\/a> registered in Australia at the time of writing.<\/p>\n

I rang the number on the website and the lady that answered had no idea which legal entity\u00a0she was working for, except that it was called “OneSolar”. My guess is that she worked for an ‘answering service’.<\/p>\n

The fact that OneSolar’s Australian website\u00a0copyright\u00a0claims to be owned by\u00a0a non-existent company should be all the reason you need to not buy these panels when there are heaps of well known, low risk brands for you to choose from.<\/p>\n

But if you need more reasons, OneSolar’s Australian site\u00a0has no problem misleading\u00a0customers.<\/p>\n

The OneSolar Homepage<\/h2>\n

You can check out the Australian OneSolar website at onesolar.com.au\u00a0, or if that’s not quite exotic enough, you can take a gander at their international page at one-solar.com\u00a0.<\/p>\n

(note: the URLs\u00a0above give security warnings on some browsers – so we have not linked to them – visit them at your own risk)<\/p>\n

Their Australian homepage doesn’t have a lot of text, but at the time of writing, two sentences in large blue type do stand out:<\/p>\n

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“No other panels generate so much energy. Or envy.”<\/p><\/div>\n

That is BS.<\/p>\n

There are two ways the first part of that statement could be taken.\u00a0 Either:<\/p>\n