The South Korean conglomerate is one of the largest companies in the world. Hyundai features in Forbes 2019 Most Valuable Brands and its Global 2000. Founded in 1947, Hyundai is a highly diversified brand. Most consumers know it for Hyundai Motor Group. Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), formed in 1972, is primarily focusing on shipbuilding. In 2004, the company entered the solar energy market as Hyundai Green Energy.
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Key Features
- Designed and manufactured in Korea
- One of the biggest companies in the world
- Blue Chip company
- Warranty: 25 year product, 25 year performance
Sungrow is a Chinese inverter manufacturer, based out of Hefei (a few hundred kilometres west of Nanjing and Shanghai). It was founded in 1997 by Cao Renxian, a professor at Hefei University of Technology. As of 2019, they have a 15% market share globally, being in 60 countries and having installed over 82GW of capacity (that’s the equivalent to over 16 million standard homes!)
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Key Features
- Made in China, head office in Sydney
- ~15% global market share
- Over 20 years in the industry
- Available in single- and three-phase from 2kW to 110+kW, plus hybrids
- Warranty: 5 years (or 5+5)
LG Chem(ical) is part of the South Korean LG Corporation. LG has been around since 1947, with revenues of just under AUS$220 billion, and hundreds of thousands of people under their employ. These days they have three main divisions: electronics; telecommunications; and chemicals. They started mass-producing lithium batteries in 1999, and is one of the world’s largest producers of lithium batteries.
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Key Features
- Designed and manufactured in Korea
- One of the biggest companies in the world
- Available from 3.3kWh to 13kWh
- Warranty: 10 years