There are many ways products can aid installation in the residential market, whether it’s adaptable inverters or streamlined batteries. For the 2025 Top Products, our residential judges assessed products on their originality, market promise and benefits to installers and developers. These are the products that received honorable mentions. Congratulations to the Residential Honorable Mention awards!
Also be sure to see our Best in Show winners in the residential market here.
Sol-Ark – Premium 18K-2P Hybrid Inverter
The Sol-Ark Premium 18K-2P hybrid inverter has been awarded an honorable mention in the inverter category.
The American-made hybrid inverter is battery-agnostic and provides up to 18 kW of continuous backup power, supporting more than 40 kW of solar through AC coupling. With 36 kVA of surge capacity, it ensures even large household systems remain operational during grid outages.
The Sol-Ark Premium 18K-2P hybrid inverter was developed after the company determined that 20% of its older inverter models were installed in parallel configurations, indicating a clear demand for higher continuous battery power in premium residential applications. So Sol-Ark engineers rigorously tested the premium inverter after receiving UL certification to ensure the unit could work across diverse applications. Only then was the inverter unveiled to the public in 2025.
Pegasus – Glide
The Glide software platform from mounting manufacturer Pegasus has won an honorable mention this year.
Glide is more than just a mounting company’s design software. The unified platform manages the entire solar installation journey, from proposal to purchase order, so users can manage jobs efficiently without re-entering data or repeating steps.
One click individually rotates a single panel or a full row within an array, and calculates all structural and BOM as a contiguous array. It’s just as easy to add or remove panels, insert pipe-vent spacing between panels and assign wind zones to specific panels. Users can also design a single project with various arrays that have different roof types, such as a house with both comp shingles and a flat-roof carport.
By simplifying and integrating all aspects of managing solar installation, Glide eliminates repetitive tasks, workarounds, manual entry errors and incompatible files and delivers a smooth, customized path from proposal to purchase order to install.
Tigo – El Inverter with IPOC
The new Tigo El Inverter with inverter power output control is a valuable product for the repowering market and another honorable mention winner this year.
With the El Inverter at its core, the new IPOC feature enables installers to limit the maximum AC power output of a Tigo inverter before commissioning. This power derating capability allows precise alignment with programmatic or regulatory thresholds when working with solar incentive programs or replacing legacy inverters in older systems.
With IPOC, installers can easily set AC output parameters in the field without modifying hardware or redesigning systems, ensuring fast and compliant upgrades to existing arrays. The unit’s smaller physical footprint is also helpful when looking for compact devices that fit into the same footprint as legacy devices. The broad voltage operating window (approximately 80-550 VDC) means IPOC units are highly compatible with both old and new solar panels. This flexibility reduces the need for restringing and ensures smoother integration across various system designs.
QuickBOLT – QuickPATCH
The unique QuickPATCH roof patch from QuickBOLT has received an honorable mention award in the balance-of-system category.
This 4-in. by 5-in. galvanized steel patch, backed with butyl adhesive, provides an easy-to-use fix when mistakes or repairs are made on the roof. It also features a top butyl strip to reseal the shingle course.
Roof holes happen, whether from missed rafters, wear and tear or the installation/removal of solar arrays or other roof-mounted equipment. QuickBOLT worked with installers and manufacturing partners to set specifications for the QuickPATCH, taking into account average hole sizes and realities of jobsite work. The result is a corrosion-resistant metal patch with pre-applied sealant, eliminating the act of improvising fixes with extra, unstandardized materials. QuickPATCH supports the principle that solar installers owe it to homeowners to leave a roof as good as, or better than, they found it.
SiteCapture
SiteCapture’s field operations software platform has received an honorable mention in the 2025 Top Products competition.
Incomplete or disorganized field reporting is one of the most common soft costs that severely impacts the bottom line of solar businesses. Extra truck rolls, financing milestone rejections, inaccurate plan sets and hours of work wasted are all-too-common side effects of inefficient field reporting and jobsite photo management. SiteCapture solves these issues with an easy-to-use mobile app that syncs with an end-to-end work management portal that guarantees field reporting accuracy and automatically keeps photos, data and communication organized for each project.
There are many photo apps in the market, but SiteCapture is the only field operations platform that was built alongside leading residential solar installers. SiteCapture keeps field and operations teams organized so they can focus on doing great work.