Vikram Solar vs A.B. Energy - solar panel manufacturer comparison
Vikram Solar has the broader catalog (202 vs 0 models). Vikram Solar leans bifacial (74% of lineup).
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
Vikram Solar Limited is a leading Indian solar photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturer and solar solutions provider. They offer engineering, procurement, construction (EPC), and operations & maintenance (O&M) services for solar plants. The company manufactures high-efficiency solar PV modules and has a pan-India...
- Founded
- 2005
- Headquarters
- Kolkata, India
- Annual capacity
- 9.5 GW/year
- Employees
- 1,895
- Listed
- NSE, BSE: VIKRAMSOLR
- Tier 1 bankable
- Yes
ABO Energy is a renewable energy company that develops and constructs renewable energy projects, focusing on wind, solar, and storage facilities. They offer turnkey solutions and have connected several gigawatts of nominal output to the grid. The company is active internationally and is committed to driving the energy...
- Founded
- 1996
- Headquarters
- Wiesbaden, Germany
- Employees
- 1,400
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
Vikram Solar skews to higher efficiency: 8% of lineup is 23%+
Vikram Solar offers more 600W+ panels (42% of lineup)
Dominant cell tech: <strong>PERC</strong> (75%)
The flagships
Written summary
Vikram Solar is an Indian manufacturer founded in 2006 and headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal. It has held BloombergNEF Tier 1 status for eight consecutive quarters and operates facilities in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu with an annual nameplate capacity of approximately 4.5 GW, with cumulative manufacturing infrastructure reaching 9.5 GW. The company listed on Indian stock exchanges in August 2025 and crossed 10 GW of cumulative global deployments in early 2026, with modules distributed across more than 32 countries. A.B. Energy is a small Italian company registered in industry directories as an energy-sector seller and distributor rather than a manufacturer; it does not appear on BNEF Tier 1 lists and has no publicly documented production capacity. On institutional scale and bankability, Vikram Solar holds a considerably stronger position.
Vikram Solar's portfolio centers on two main product families: the Hypersol series, which uses N-type TOPCon bifacial cells, and the Paradea series, built on mono PERC bifacial technology, both available in large-format G12 and M10 cell configurations suited to utility-scale ground-mount and commercial rooftop projects. A revealing data point is that in September 2025, Vikram Solar supplied 200 MW of its M10R N-type TOPCon modules - rated at 590 Wp each - to AB Energia under a direct supply agreement, confirming that Vikram Solar is the manufacturing supplier and A.B. Energy is a downstream buyer, not a competing panel producer.
For any buyer comparing these two names as potential panel vendors, Vikram Solar is the only verifiable solar panel manufacturer with a Tier 1 profile, a documented technology roadmap, and active international supply agreements. A.B. Energy, based on available evidence, functions as a downstream energy distributor in the Italian market, making a like-for-like technical comparison of the two as panel producers effectively impossible with current public data.
Generated by Claude Sonnet · 2026-06-18
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