Industry Updates

Trina Solar has published version 2.0 of its 210 Vertex White Paper, with a view to comprehensively presenting the value of the 210 Vertex’s ultra-high power to the industry.

Jolywood has been given the ‘Outdoor Yield Performance’ award by TÜV Nord at the organisation’s digitalization globalization seminar for its high efficiency and high quality N type modules.

JinkoSolar has enabled the Philippines based New Zealand Creamery to produce cheese based on solar power. 2.2MW of the company’s high efficiency solar panels were supplied by Its official distributor in the Philippines, Proinso, and installed on the roof of the creamery’s cheese making facility in Laguna. The project is one of the largest of its kind in the country and puts the creamery well on the way to fulfilling its vision of powering the whole facility with renewable energy.

JinkoSolar has announced that it has, in conjunction with its official distributor in Thailand, Solar Touch, converted a poultry and pig farm belonging to KVS Fresh Products to solar power, with the completed installation of 1MW of its high efficiency solar panels.

Growatt has become the world’s No.1 supplier of residential inverters, accounting for 16.6% of market share in 2020, according to IHS Markit’s latest PV Inverter Market Tracker report.

JinkoSolar has supplied its high-efficiency modules to Grupotec to power two solar plants in Kenya. The two projects have a total power of 98 MWp and consist of over 290,000 modules, with Grupotec completing construction of the plants, Radiant and Eldosol, near the city of Eldoret in the north west of the country. The plants occupy some 600 acres of land and will generate sufficient power to supply over 250,000 households, while reducing CO2 emissions by an annual 106,000 tons.   "We are proud that JinkoSolar’s technology and products are helping Africa to tap into green energy. Our company is currently installing similar solar plants in other African countries and we are always willing to train locals on installation and operation and maintenance to make it easier for each country to undertake similar projects in the future," commented Gener Miao, the company’s CMO.

Sharp Solar Solution Asia (SSSA) has concluded an agreement with the Fuyo General Lease Co. to establish a joint venture company, S-Solar Generation Thailand, which will sell electricity in the Thai market. This is the first time that the Sharp Corporation or one of its subsidiaries has entered the business of selling power to private companies. Under a PPA, companies signing a contract with the new joint venture will be able to have a solar power system installed with zero initial investment and subsequently use solar-generated power at a reduced rate.

LONGi has partnered with Solar Electric Vietnam (SEV) to provide a 5.4kWp rooftop system at the United Nations International School (UNIS) in Hanoi.

A 400MW agricultural photovoltaic solar plant in Nangong, China is currently over halfway through construction, with the project adopting Trina Solar's 210 Vertex 550W series modules with TrinaTracker Vanguard 2P trackers to further increase power generation and reduce LCOE.

Trina Solar has formally joined the global Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) and signed the ‘Business Ambition’ for its 1.5°C pledge. This once again underlines the company's commitment to helping limit the rise in global temperatures to 1.5°C through its own actions to reduce emissions.