At Jonstar, we believe that clean energy should never come at the cost of human rights. As we help businesses and homes transition to sustainable power, we’re equally committed to ensuring that every part of our supply chain reflects our modern slavery policy.
That’s why we take proactive steps to ensure that all whom we work with aligns with the highest ethical standards. Our policy around Modern Slavery issues identifies solar panels as a high risk area for finding modern slavery in the supply chains.
Currently we only install solar panels that from manufacturers that hold SA8000 certification. SA8000 is a voluntary, internationally recognized standard for social accountability in the workplace, created by Social Accountability International (SAI). It provides a framework for organisations to demonstrate commitment to fair labour practices by adhering to requirements in nine core areas, including child labour, forced labour, health and safety, and freedom of association.
Achieving SA8000 certification shows an organisation is committed to ethical employment and helps reduce risks while improving reputation and stakeholder relationships. For this reason we use DAS Solar and DMEGC Solar Panels in our installations as they are manufactured to the highest standards achieving Tier 1 standards as well as having attained the SA8000 certification.
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Jonstar are a SolarEdge Expert Installer. Some of the benefits of a SolarEdge Optimised System are:
SolarEdge systems generate more electricity than standard systems over time by reducing shading effects and the degradation mismatch between panels over time. Jonstar will provide a forecast for your own system to demonstrate what we would expect to be the difference through using the SolarEdge 3D software to model your premises. The system also provides added safety features, panel level monitoring showing generation data assisting maintenance and a twelve year inverter warranty, seven years longer than most other 3 phase inverters. The system is classed as a SafeDC system. A standard string inverter set up cannot shut down the array so will typically have live cabling up to 750V at any point during daylight. The optimisers on the roof allow the SolarEdge system to shutdown the panel output to 1 volt per optimiser, making each string circa 20 Volts, this helps meet the RC62 fire service guidelines on installing SolarPV, making it the safest and most productive system on the market..