Step by Step Guide to Buy the Best Solar Panel in India

Updated Article: Best Solar Panels in India 2019

 

Solar panels have become the basic units for generating electricity. The popularity of solar energy in generating power is attributed to its improving efficiencies and reducing costs. Solar energy has gradually reached grid parity with almost all states in India and has become a convenient options for power generation in places located far from the grid.

 

According to our analysis, people install solar panels for three basic reasons:

 

  •         To reduce Electricity Bill
  •         To store excess power and
  •         Inspired by Neighbourhoods

 

Today, there are a lot of options available to common people to choose solar panels. Thanks to the internet, a potential buyer has ample brands to choose from. He can also study the features and compare different brands available in the market through information found on the internet. However, the pattern which a potential buyer chooses also differs from person to person. Based on their methodology, we have divided the buyers into different categories and studied their pattern of selecting their favorite solar panel brand. Hope this analogy will help you too, in choosing your solar panel.

 

Classification of Potential Solar Buyers

 

The solar buyers in India can be conveniently divided into three categories:

 

  1. Layman - accounting for 60% of the total buyers
  2. Technical - accounting for 20% of the total and
  3. Brand Conscious - accounting for the remaining 20%

 

#Customer Type -1: Layman Person

Who is a Layman Person?

 

A layman person is one who has heard about solar technology but does not know the finer details. He has an idea that he needs to install solar panels for his home or commercial establishment, but is clueless about the specifications, brands etc.

 

For example, doctors, cricketers, celebrities, businessmen, NRI, education industry, real estate players, etc.

How does a Layman Person buy Solar Panel in India?

 

Let’s see how a layman person searches for a solar system for him home or business online.

 

Step-1: Search Online

A Layman person looks for options in top search queries like, 1 kW solar system price in India, 1 kW solar panel for home, 1 kW solar system price for 3/2 BHK house, etc. You can see the Google SERP result below.

 

Step-2: Choose Website

 

Based upon his search, he gets a list of Indian and international solar websites like Urjakart, Industrybuying, Kenbrook Solar, Indiamart, Pricenmore, Sukam, Waree, LuminousIndia, Amazon, Loom Solar, Flipkart, Microtek, Bijlibachao, etc. Several international solar websites like EnegrySage, Energyinformative, Altenergy, Wholesalessolar, Solarpowerauthority, and more are also returned in the search results. A  reader generally clicks on top one to 5 results displayed on the screen.

 

 

As per our observation, international solar websites gives better information about solar energy products. They provide better answers to a customer’s basic queries like - what is a solar panel, types of solar panel, efficiency of solar panel, how does solar panel work, solar panel installation, etc. A layman should prefer exploring these websites, if he is interested to learn about solar energy products and the technology.

 

On the other hand, Indian solar websites give better results about a wide range of solar energy products, such as solar panel, solar inverter, solar battery, solar charge controller & solar mounting structure with solar installation kits. You can buy solar products from these websites, if you have plan to install solar panels.

 

Loom Solar is one of India’s premium solar brand store where you can get solar energy product information, watch solar product videos, read customer testimonial, and get better deals etc. Please visit Loom Solar website, if you are looking for India’s best selling solar products.   

 

 

Step-3: Explore Website

 

After the potential customer has chosen to stay at a particular website, he should explore the given website and learn more about the desired solar products. Let’s take the example of Loom Solar, the user explores website and wants to know more about the company’s background and the required solar products.

 

 

Step-4: Contact the Brand

 

After exploring website for 4-5 minutes, if the reader is impressed he may choose to contact ‘Loom Solar’ via the toll-free number, email, chat, WhatsApp, comment, FAQ, etc. Why contacting the brand is important:

 

 

  1. To know more about their product selection. A layman is always in doubt whether he is buying the right product or not because he lacks technical knowledge and solar panel/ kit is a technical product.

 

  1. To know more about the company. In this example it is Loom Solar. A buyer will feel at ease once he has spoken to some company representative. There are several questions in his mind like whether Loom Solar is a trusted solar company? How will the company deliver products at my location? Whether the company is in a good position to honour its warranty etc.?

 

Loom Solar experts understand the customer’s requirements very well and clear all doubts of the customers. Once the customer’s queries are satisfied by our smart solar expert, he moves forward.

 

Step-5: Talk to the Solar Expert

 

If the customer is impressed he will go ahead and buy the products online, such as solar panel, solar inverter, solar battery, solar charge controller and mounting structure.

 

However, we suggest home visit when the customer wants to install solar system above 3 kW. The reason being our engineer is in a better position to understand rooftop space requirements, strength of the rooftop, power consumption and loads, etc.

 

Step-6: Buy Solar Energy Products

 

Finally, the customers can place the order successfully through many different payment options such as:

 

 

 

  1.       Cash on Delivery (CoD)
  2.       EMI
  3.       Pay Online via Master Card/Debit Card/Visa
  4.       Instamojo
  5.       Paytm

 

 

#Customer Type -2: Technical Person

 

Who are the Technical Person?

 

The second category of potential buyers are known as technical persons. These people know about SKU (i.e. 100/ 150/ 200/ 250/ 300/ 315/ 350 watt solar panel). They are generally people working in or acquainted with solar technology. For example, installer, dealer, manufacturers, solar expert, etc. They might be looking for installing solar panels at their residence or for re-selling.

 

Step-1: Search SKU  - latest

 

Technical person follows same Step-1 & 2 as the layman, but they already have the basic information/ knowledge. They are more interested in knowing about the SKU, lowest price, best selling brands, top manufacturers, etc.

 

 

Step-2: Relevant Page

 

Since the technical people already know the basic features of solar products, they are now looking for the best brands and comparing their prices. They directly visit the product pages and are more interested to know about brand, warranty, per watt cost, space requirements, input/output power, volt, ampere, etc. He is basically looking for the best deal available in the market for the products/ brands he has chosen.

 

 

Step-3: Contact Us

 

Technical person takes support by calling at our customer care number – 8750 77 88 00 from the website. We help him with all his queries and are available Monday to Saturday from 9:00 AM till 9:00 PM.

 

 

Step-4: Bulk Order

 

As mentioned above, technical persons include installer, dealer, manufacturers, solar expert, etc. They generally place order for reselling from Loom Solar and therefore, have a big order size. Given below is the summary of an order placed by a technical person.

 

#Customer Type -3: Brand Conscious Person

 

Who is a Brand Conscious Person?

 

A brand conscious person has only heard about the brand (i.e. Luminous, Microtek, Sukam, Waree, Sunfuel, Tata, etc.), but does not know any other detail. They will compare prices of all the brands, but in reality do not care about the price involved and will ultimately end up buying the brand he has heard about.

 

For example, super rich person

 

Step-1: Search Solar Brand

 

A brand conscious person knows about brands through offline market, magazines, news, events, success stories, media releases, influencer sites, social media sites, piece of mouth,  etc. He knows about the brand through trusted sources and nothing else. To quench his curiosity he looks up in Google and learns about Luminous solar panel product for example.

 

Step-2: View Brands

 

Such a type of customer will look at different choices available in the market but has already decided to go for a particular brand that he has learned from his trusted source. These type of buyers prefer to see the multiple brands at a single outlet. At Loom Solar we list top solar brands/manufacturers of solar products such as Luminous, Microtek, Sukam, Trina, Sunfuel, Waaree, etc. Loom Solar has exclusive tie-up with these brands.

 

Step-3: Contact Us

 

This happens the same way as we discussed earlier. A brand conscious buyer will not buy a solar system of small size ie. 1 kW. He generally has a bigger establishment and hence places an order or a larger size. He likes to place the order in the traditional way - calls technicians of different brands for home visit, takes quotation from all and finally places the order. He prefers to buy the brand he had in mind, but also considers a good pricing deal, presentation of the technician etc. in making his decision.

 

Note: We have recently published a blog in which we have discussed the whole procedure about on-grid solar system. In this blog, we have also discussed how to request an engineer for home visit.

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Read more: How to install an on-grid solar system in 10 simple steps

 

Step-4: Place Order

 

After home visit, he finally decides to buy solar system. He preferably buys 3 kW – 100 kW solar system online from Loom Solar.

 

 

Let’s overview of solar panel:

 

Loom Solar Private Limited deals 10 Watt – 100 kW, but standard solar panel’s SKU is 100 watt, 180 watt, 200 watt, 250 watt, 300 watt, 335 watt & 350 watt in the Indian solar industry.

Loom Solar Panel Price

Loom solar 180 watt solar panel is made of A grade black silicon anti PID mono cells to generate electricity from sun. The cells are made of superior quality silicon which gives higher efficiency up to 20% and also performs better in low light. It is the latest panels in mono crystalline technology that comes with 5 busbars 36 cells and 25 years performance warranty.

Luminous Solar Panel Price


Luminous Power Technologies is a leading energy company in India providing a wide range of power back up, electrical and LED lighting solutions. Luminous offers a wide range of solar products like panels, UPS and batteries. Luminous Solar Panel comes in both mono- and poly- crystalline variants. They can be installed at your homes, small shops and other commercial establishments.

 

Microtek Solar Panel Price

 

Microtek is another manufacturer of power products and solutions in India. Microtek Solar Panel range from 50 W to 320 W. They are best known for their inverter solutions as well.

 

Sukam Solar Panel Price


Su-Kam is the largest inverter manufacturer in India. The company produces and sells power solutions including battery, inverters, UPS systems, solar solutions. Sukam Solar Panels come in a wide power output range to serve different purposes. They come in a wide range from 10W – 250W. These panels come with 25 years warranty and are designed to withstand the extreme weather conditions in India.

 

Waaree & Sunfuel Solar Panel Price

 

During polysilicon manufacturing, it is possible to grow pure silicon made of a single crystal. The solar panels made out of this single crystal of pure silicon is called monocrystalline solar panel. Monocrystalline solar panel technology has long lived in the shadows of multicrystalline solar panel technology. Monocrystalline solar panels are regarded as more expensive but they are more efficient.

 

Conclusion

 

So you see there are ample options to choose and buy solar panels from. Prudence must be exercised while making the choice as solar panels constitute nearly 60% of the total cost of a solar system, taking into account the different factors like price, location, technology etc involved. There exists different types of buyers based upon their knowledge and awareness of solar technology and we have already seen their buying patterns. It is good if you can identify yourself in any of the above mentioned categories. You can then follow the steps to buy the perfect solar panel for yourself. Even if you cannot clearly identify yourself with any of these categories, you roughly know how to go about choosing and buying that perfect solar panel for yourself. Best of luck with your search!

 

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23 comments

Rajan

Rajan

I am interested to go for installation of solar power system in house rooftop as per govt rules in order to avail govt subsidy. Pls give contact number of your personal at Trivandrum in Kerla.

Ashish Kumar Vidyarthi

Ashish Kumar Vidyarthi

Hi I m ashish from hyderabad. I would like to know more about the solar panels system and price. I would like to know about how much watt required for 2 and 4 Bhk and how many solar cells will be required with price. Kindly let me know if you will provide some guidance.
With Regards Ashish

Dinesh

Dinesh

Pls tell us cost for plant for 5unit daily consumption home

dinesh kumar das

dinesh kumar das

i have a roof top space of 20 × 50 ft at Munna Chak , Kankarbagh Patna -800020. and want to install solar power panels . Plz guide

v.k.chum

v.k.chum

need a solar panel unit at roof top,daily consumption 15 units,connected load 6kw,pl. advice on brand & cost of panels & accessories,viability of unit etc.,complete tech.advice,suppliers in jaipur.

Rajesh Gandhi

Rajesh Gandhi

I am interested to install on grid solar power systems for my home, I have available space for the system is 400 sq.feet

Anwar Gausi

Anwar Gausi

What would be the cost to put up about 50 kw to 100kw and how do we avail the subsidy?

Meher Nigar Baig

Meher Nigar Baig

I want to install solar panel at my house

Jaibir Singh

Jaibir Singh

Dear Sir I am interested to install Solar panel at my house ,average consumption of my home is appx 25 unit per day please suggest me for better one.

Nilanchal Panda

Nilanchal Panda

Please suggest me how to start solar business in odisha

Ramswarup

Ramswarup

Solar invetar lgana h

Sushil Kumar

Sushil Kumar

I want to install solar panels on my house

Pravin Sharma

Pravin Sharma

Kindly let me know the comlete installation charge of I kw solar power panel in the state of Jharkhand.

Mongal Ghosh

Mongal Ghosh

Need pricing for 5 kw solar power system. Do we get any subsidy on it. Space required for installation.

avinash thotam

avinash thotam

i want to lern this system,anay traning seminar provide you,my contact no- 996790059

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rocky

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Danish SIDDIQUI R

Danish SIDDIQUI R

Sir, Two Solar panels of 12V/180 watts each ( Sunfuel brand) will be suitable to use at 1135VA Microtec msn inverter for charging 12V/150AH battery simeltaneously running load.

Satish Shriwastav

Satish Shriwastav

Sir/Madam,

I am leaving in my own house having concrete rooftop of around 400-500 Sq.Ft. with three BHKK. The daily electric consumption is around 15-20 Units and total wattage of home equipment is around 500 Watts (Fridge+TV+Fans+Tubelights etc.)

Please suggest me the required Solar panel watts and approximate cost with installation.

Fazal Ahmed

Fazal Ahmed

Getting Most Important Information Direct from you.
I do need to run my desktop with Solar Power. Do please, inform me how much total amount I will have to spend to get this full solar system direct from you? This is what I have been requesting many people since a very long time, but not getting reply from any out of all of them Thus, very valuable time is getting elapsed day by day Do please provide to me your quotation with very competitive price so that I can be able to place a reconfirmed purchase order Do hurry up please hurry up…………………..!

Sukanta Adhikary

Sukanta Adhikary

I am working last since one and half year in this sector. Please provide me practical programme by which improve this. Already I had installed 10kw set up and 0.450kw set up in 102 family and installation e-mail riskaw to solar riskaw through convertion kit.

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