Tier 1 is simply an investigation by bloomberg new energy finance that entails the solar panel manufacturer needing to show that 6 different finance houses have backed projects of over 1 5mwp of solar a fairly large solar farm within the last 2 years.
Tier 1 solar panels list bloomberg 2016.
You can read the full methodology on bloomberg new energy finance s website here.
The group first developed the tiered system for pv modules to create a transparent differentiation among the many solar manufacturers so financial institutions could easily determine which brands were bankable bnef tracks past solar.
It started as a rating system to measure the credit worthiness of solar panel brands for the banking and other financial institutions.
Bloomberg new energy finance bnef tracks the bankability of solar panel manufacturers through their tier 1 panel lists.
Tier 1 manufacturers are usually the companies in the quarterly bloomberg new energy finance bnef pv market outlook sorted according to their annual module production capacity in mw year.
The different brands in this list are marked by bnef as bankable meaning they have their own products factories and their products were used on megawatt size projects.
Not to be confused the bloomberg module tiering list 2020 is not published by bloomberg new energy finance online.