I do solar O&M for commercial sites. We have lost 2 panels out of our nearly 20,000 to hail in 16 years of operation. Baseballs and birds dropping turtles have killed far more panels for us.
Largest killer is squirrel, those little monsters love the flavor of pv cable it seems.
Silfab and Heliene also have manufacturing in canada. All 3 of these companies are only completing the cells in canada, not full manufacturing, or atleast a few companies have told me that.
There are really cheap and good panels from Vietnam and Taiwan that beet/meet the same price point as topcon and some of the other Chinese panels.
The hard one is getting a canadian made inverter. Canadian solar rebrands the Chinese solis and deye inverters and calls them theirs.
Holy shit, this is the stupidest timeline.
It really is, hard part is sorting through the errors and figuring out just what in the world caused the error. The amount of hardware between the inverter and grid is impressive when you have a 100kw+ system. Over 250kw it gets even better because hydro needs to be able to remotely kill your power.