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CA Approved Inverters List - Also known as? Do you know?

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This is a list of approved all-in-one solar inverters that is maintained by California. I'm in Arizona but our power company refers me to this list to buy an inverter. Many of these are available in the USA if I search for the make/model in the list however, many of you here in these forums know that some are re-badged.

I've spent weeks trying to find an inverter that not only meets my needs but my price range. In my case, 22/24amp inputs, $2500 or less.
Each time I show APS a make/model, they say it's not in the list yet in these forums, people say 'that's the same as this one'.

Some or many of the following have different names but are the same hardware.
With your help, I'd like to add an AKA to each one of these to help anyone that has spent time like I have looking for these.

Can you help? If one is confirmed, I'll update this post until all of them are listed.
I list 3kw to 12kw as that's probably the most common range.

How to confirm? Post one of more of the lines shown with its re-branded make/model and availability in US.

Example;
Chint Power Systems America - CPS ECH12KTL/US
AKA: TheOtherBrandName, GEEPS 12345. Name of US supplier/URL

As you share your info, I'll update the list to try and help others going through this.

Code:
3KW     ABB                          PVI-3.0-OUTD-S-US-A [240V]
3KW     Tigo Energy, Inc             TSI-3.0K-US
3KW     Shenzhen Growatt New Energy  MIN 3000TL-XH-US
3.8KW   Tigo Energy, Inc             TSI-3.8K-US
3.8KW   SolarEdge Technologies Ltd.  SE3800H-US
3.8KW   Shenzhen Growatt New Energy  MIN 3800TL-XH-US
4.6KW   Tigo Energy, Inc             TSI-4.6K-US
5KW     Tigo Energy, Inc             TSI-5.0K-US
5KW     Shenzhen Growatt New Energy  MIN 5000TL-XH-US
5.5KW   Tabuchi Electric Co., Ltd.   THE-S55P3BB-US [240V]
5.7KW   SolarEdge Technologies Ltd.  SE5700H-US
6KW     Qcells North America         Q.VOLT H6.0SX [240V]
6KW     Tigo Energy, Inc             TSI-6.0K-US
6KW     Shenzhen Growatt New Energy  MIN 6000TL-XH-US
6KW     Sol-Ark                      Sol-Ark-6k-48-ST
6KW     SolarEdge Technologies Ltd.  SE6000H-US
7.6KW   SolarEdge Technologies Ltd.  SE7600A-US
7.6KW   Tigo Energy, Inc             TSI-7.6K-US
7.6KW   Shenzhen Growatt New Energy  MIN 7600TL-XH-US
7.6KW   SolarJuice American Inc.     S4A-H76
8KW     Shenzhen Lux Power Technology LXP-LB-US 8K [240V]
8KW     Sol-Ark                      Sol-Ark-8k-48-ST [240V]
8KW     Tigo Energy, Inc             TSI-8.0K-US
8KW     SolarEdge Technologies Ltd.  SE8000H-US
8KW     Shenzhen Growatt New Energy  MIN 8000TL-XH-US
9KW     Tigo Energy, Inc             TSI-9.0K-US
9KW     Shenzhen Growatt New Energy  MIN 9000TL-XH-US
9KW     Sol-Ark                      Sol-Ark-9k-48-ST [240V]
10KW    Tigo Energy, Inc             TSI-10.0K-US
10KW    Shenzhen Growatt New Energy  MIN 10000TL-XH-US
10KW    Sol-Ark                      Sol-Ark-10k-48-ST [240V]
11KW    Tigo Energy, Inc             TSI-11.0K-US
11KW    Shenzhen Growatt New Energy  MIN 11000TL-XH-US
11KW    Sol-Ark                      Sol-Ark-11k-48-ST [240V]
11.4KW  SolarEdge Technologies Ltd.  SE11400H-US
11.4KW  Chint Power Systems America  CPS ECH12KTL/US [240V]
12KW    Shenzhen Lux Power Technology LXP-LB-US 12K [240V]
12KW    Fortress Power LLC           FP-ENVY-12K [240V]
12KW    Sol-Ark                      Sol-Ark-12k-48-ST [240V]

As a reminder, I'm only extracting from this CA list that Arizona and I imagine some other states are using as their guide.
This is the complete list.
Finally, refresh this post because I'll be editing it as information is brought forward.
 
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Where are the growatts?
I added the link to the complete list.

You're right, there are Growatt in there. I skipped them because I didn't see any consumer size units but now I see it's the way I filtered the list showing me only large, starting at 100kw inverters.

I've now updated the list and post.
 
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I added the complete list. You're right, there are Growatt in there.
I skipped them because I didn't see any consumer size units but now I see it's the way they have the list, starting large, at 100kw.
I've now updated the list and yes, I was keeping them in the 10kw to 12kw range because that's what I was looking for but we can expand the list if wanted. Say 3kw to?
Two growatts that would fit are

growatt min11400tl-xh-us with aro or apx batteries or
Growatt sph10000tl-hu-us, battery agnostic
 
Two growatts that would fit are

growatt min11400tl-xh-us with aro or apx batteries or
Growatt sph10000tl-hu-us, battery agnostic
AKA which one I've listed? Once I know, I'll update it.
 
I saw that post too which is why I thought there might be interest in building up a list, item, aka, available in usa, price range, what ever makes it easier for people to find all this re-branded stuff.

I've been searching for weeks now and it's just a mess trying to find one single inverter.
 

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