Leading solar manufacturer Trinasolar has announced that TÜV SÜD has certified 2 of its manufacturing facilities to the Solar Stewardship Initiative's (SSI) ESG standards. SSI, an initiative by SolarPower Europe, is the solar PV industry’s first program dedicated to sustainability and traceability in the supply chain. It aims to promote the responsible production, procurement, and management of PV materials across the global solar value chain. The certified facilities are located in Dafeng District, Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province, and Yiwu City, Zhejiang Province, making Trinasolar the first in the solar industry to receive this distinction.
Trinasolar’s innovation titled "A Method for Estimating Direct Irradiance Ratio Using Dual Pyranometers" was recently awarded the Silver Prize of the China Patent Award (see China Solar PV News Snippets).
Solar PV manufacturer DAS Solar has announced that it has commissioned a 1 MW solar plant in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, in partnership with EUROSOLAR Georgia and Innovation Energy. Completed in a period of 4 months, the company says the plant features high-efficiency n-type TOPCon modules designed for Uzbekistan’s sunny, arid conditions.
Spanning 2 hectares, the plant is said to be able to meet a substantial portion of the accompanying factory’s daytime energy needs, with the surplus energy fed to the local grid. The company says this feature helps the energy independence of the region and reduces its reliance on traditional fossil fuels.
In December 2024, DAS Solar, in collaboration with China Three Gorges Group's Research Institute, announced the start of mass production and delivery for perovskite/TOPCon 4-terminal tandem modules (see China Solar PV News Snippets).
Chint Group company Astronergy has provided 319 MW of ASTRO N5 solar modules for China Datang’s Shichengzi 1 GW Solar-Thermal + PV clean energy demonstration project, now connected to the grid. The project consists of a 900 MW solar PV power plant and a 100 MW linear Fresnel concentrated solar thermal energy storage station. The thermal station serves as a base-load power source, supporting grid stability through frequency regulation and peak shaving, while complementing the PV plant. The project is expected to generate 2.19 billion kWh annually. The company says its ASTRO N5 modules, featuring proprietary n-type TOPCon 4.0 technology, ensure high efficiency even in harsh desert conditions with large temperature variations and sandy environments.
Last month, Astronergy announced that its ASTRO N7 modules passed RETC’s UVID220 testing standard (see China Solar PV News Snippets).
Semiconductor processing equipment supplier Zhejiang YunFeng New Energy Technology Co., Ltd., has announced that its subsidiary, Jingmei New Energy (Tacheng) Co., Ltd. plans to invest RMB 8.473 billion ($1.19 billion) in a monocrystalline silicon ingot, slicing, and solar module production facility in Tacheng, Xinjiang. Phase 1 involves RMB 3 billion ($421.97 million) for constructing facilities and establishing 12 GW silicon pulling, slicing, and 6 GW module production capacities. Preparations, including feasibility studies and regulatory filings, are complete, and construction is scheduled to begin in April 2025.
Solar module manufacturer Jiayu Holding Co., Ltd. (Jiayu) announced that its stock price closed at RMB 0.88/share on January 6, 2025. According to Shenzhen Stock Exchange GEM listing rules, a company’s stock faces delisting if its share price remains below RMB 1/share for 20 consecutive trading days. As of Q3 2024, Jiayu’s net assets stand at a negative RMB 1.691 billion ($230.61 million), with an accumulated deficit of RMB 2.603 billion ($354.99 million) and a debt-to-asset ratio of 180.05%. The company has not received notice of any significant debt relief and projects its year-end net assets to remain negative, raising the risk of delisting.
In September 2024, Jiayu Holding announced that the company along with its subsidiaries was involved in 1,679 lawsuits as defendants (see China Solar PV News Snippets).