Luxen Solar Energy vs Yingli - solar panel manufacturer comparison
Yingli has the broader catalog (196 vs 151 models). Luxen Solar Energy leads on peak efficiency at 24.80%.
Both catalogues are read from the manufacturers' own datasheets. A brand is not scored against the market here, only against the other brand on this page.
The two companies
Luxen Solar is a global company dedicated to the production and sales of high-power, low-attenuation solar photovoltaic modules. The company was founded in Spain and has since established manufacturing facilities and branches in various countries. Luxen is recognized as a Tier 1 manufacturer by BloombergNEF and is...
- Founded
- 2005
- Headquarters
- Suzhou, China
- Annual capacity
- 3 GW/year
- Employees
- 500+
- Tier 1 bankable
- Yes
Yingli Solar, also known as Yingli Green Energy, is a leading solar energy company and one of the world's largest vertically integrated PV manufacturers. The company develops, manufactures, and sells PV modules to a wide range of markets. Yingli's mission is to provide affordable green energy for all.
- Founded
- 1998
- Headquarters
- Baoding, Hebei, China
- Annual capacity
- 2.45 GW/year
- Employees
- 9000+
- Listed
- OTC Pink: YGEHY
- Tier 1 bankable
- Yes
Catalogue against catalogue
An average over a catalogue describes the range a manufacturer publishes, not the module you would buy. A brand with two flagship panels and eighty older ones averages worse than one that has retired its back catalogue.
What each of them builds
Yingli skews to higher efficiency: 21% of lineup is 23%+
Luxen Solar Energy offers more 600W+ panels (43% of lineup)
Dominant cell tech: <strong>N-type</strong> (81%)
Dominant cell tech: <strong>PERC</strong> (32%)
The flagships
Written summary
Luxen Solar Energy is a manufacturer founded in 2005, with operational headquarters cited in both Suzhou, China and Vienna, Austria, positioning itself as a globally oriented brand. It holds BloombergNEF Tier 1 status and currently reports roughly 3 GW of production capacity, with stated plans to scale up to 10 GW by 2026. Yingli Solar is a considerably older company, founded in 1998 in Baoding, China, and was briefly the world's largest module shipper by volume in 2012-2013; it now runs around 5 GW of TOPCon cell capacity and up to 20 GW of PERC/TOPCon module capacity. Yingli's BloombergNEF Tier 1 status has fluctuated over the years, but its longer track record and larger manufacturing scale give it the stronger institutional footprint overall.
On the product side, Luxen's current lineup centers on its N6 and N5 series built on N-type TOPCon cells, offered in standard, all-black, and glass-glass bifacial formats, and marketed across residential, commercial and industrial rooftop segments. Yingli runs two parallel lines: the YLM series, built on monocrystalline PERC half-cell technology for residential and small C&I use, and the flagship Panda series, based on N-type TOPCon bifacial cells and aimed primarily at utility-scale ground-mount and larger C&I projects.
For a typical buyer, both brands sit comfortably in the mainstream Tier 1 Chinese manufacturer tier, and the practical choice often comes down to use case rather than brand superiority: Luxen leans toward residential and commercial rooftop deployments with a modern TOPCon-focused catalog, while Yingli's longer history and dedicated utility-scale Panda line make it a familiar name for larger ground-mount projects. In many respects the two are interchangeable for standard installations, so local distribution, warranty terms and after-sales support should weigh more heavily in the decision than raw specifications.
Generated by Claude Sonnet 5 · 2026-09-11
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Comparisons are computed from manufacturer datasheets held in the ComparePV database and may not reflect a brand's complete current lineup. Nothing on this page is paid placement.