When you are considering adding solar panels to your roof, you may be someone who cares all about the function and nothing about the aesthetics, but many do, particularly if you’ve spent a lot of time effort and money on the design and external appearance of your home.
Often solar panels, particularly the cheaper end of the market, have pretty ugly frames around the panels, often light grey, which gets mounted to grey rails which contrasts many roofs, particularly dark ones. When we added solar to our home, we paid extra for ‘the black pack’ so the panels would blend into our dark roof and I’m really happy we did.
Now, there are solar panels that come with black frames to meet the aesthetic demands of modern customers. The latest version of Trina Solar’s Vertex S Aesthetic module is now available for sale in Australia for residential customers.
Homeowners with a single-storey house, a low roof, or a house that is in a prominent position often care about the external appearance of their home.
The Vertex S Aesthetic module, which is also known as the Vertex S All Black module appears more matte and has minimal glass reflection thanks to a double layer of antireflection coating (ARC).
The module also has a uniform black colour due to a dedicated cellblackening treatment.
The latest version of the module has power output up to 425W and maximum efficiency of 21.3%. The module comes with a 25-year product and 25-year performance warranty.
THE Vertex S Aesthetic module is compatible with mainstream optimizers, inverters and mounting systems available in Australia. The module is also designed to be low in weight, making it easier to handle and install on rooftops.
Todd Li, president of Trina Solar Asia Pacific.We are seeing strong interest from Australian households for this product because of its performance, in terms of higher power output and efficiency, coupled with its aesthetic appeal.
More and more Australian households are installing solar on their rooftops, so we make sure we offer a wide choice of module designs to complement various styles of roofs and help aesthetically-minded homeowners.
Trina Solar’s Australian distributors are already promoting the Vertex S All-Black modules to building architects and developers who want to showcase the aesthetical appeal of rooftop solar
The black colour cells with ultra-fine busbars, together with a fine layout of the black frame, back-sheet, black label and string busbars, makes Vertex S All-Black visually appealing for households.
Trina Solar’s Vertex modules achieve higher power output and efficiency by using 210mm technology, a larger wafer size than earlier generation modules.
The latest version of Vertex S Aesthetic module, the first shipment of which arrived in Australia in November, uses 210R cells, a rectangular-shaped cell whereas the earlier version of the All Black module used square-shaped cells. The new solar cells deliver around 30W of additional power output.
The Vertex S Aesthetic module earlier this year won a Red Dot Design Award, the top award in the world for product and industrial design. Previous award winners include Apple, Audi and Porsche.
The Red Dot Design Awards – which are announced in Germany each year – are like the ‘Oscars’ of product design. The Vertex S Aesthetic module was selected out of nearly 10,000 entries from more than 60 countries for its advanced design concept and excellent user experience, says Todd.
The Trina Solar Vertex S series of modules, including the Vertex S Aesthetic module, are mostly used for residential applications but are also used for commercial and industrial applications.
