Canadian Solar has announced that 3 of its manufacturing plants in Jiangsu Province have been selected for the 2025 list of Provincial-Level Green Factories. The 3 facilities are: the Yancheng Plant (mainly producing energy storage systems), the Yangzhou Plant (producing PV wafers, cells, modules, new materials, and storage cells/systems), and the Suqian Plant (focused on solar cell production).
The recognition criteria encompass land efficiency, harmless raw materials, clean production, waste recycling, and low-carbon energy use. Canadian Solar stated that it currently operates 1 national-level green factory and 7 provincial-level green factories across China.
In April, Canadian Solar’s PV testing center was accredited as a PANFile witness laboratory by DEKRA (see China Solar PV News Snippets).
The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the National Energy Administration (NEA) have jointly released a document titled ‘Guiding Opinions on Promoting Renewable Energy Consumption and Regulation’. According to the document, a coordinated and efficient multi-level renewable energy regulation system is planned to be largely in place by 2030, with new electricity demand primarily met by new renewable generation, adding more than 200 GW of renewable energy consumption capacity annually. A new power system, adapted to a high share of renewables, will be fully established by 2035, with a unified national power market playing a crucial role in resource allocation. Renewable energy will be efficiently integrated and consumed nationwide, supporting the achievement of China’s nationally determined contribution (NDC) goals.
The policy emphasizes optimizing the transmission and utilization of large-scale ‘Desert, Gobi, and Wasteland Area’ projects and integrated water-wind-solar bases, while promoting integrated development of renewable hydrogen, ammonia, and methanol production, storage, and utilization. It also calls for enhanced flexibility of the power system and the development of advanced pumped hydro and energy storage technologies.
In October, NDRC released a draft policy proposing minimum renewable energy consumption quotas and a responsibility weighting system for renewable power absorption (see China Solar PV News Snippets).
The Institute of Physics under the Henan Academy of Sciences, Henan Jinhongtai New Material Technology Co., Ltd., and Shangqiu Hongda Optoelectronics Co., Ltd. have jointly set up a pilot manufacturing base for perovskite tandem solar cells in Zhengzhou, Henan Province.
This pilot line has 3 core objectives: optimizing interfaces and tandem structures to reduce production costs; leveraging existing production lines to address scale-up challenges and complete mass production process design; and establishing a comprehensive performance testing system to provide technical standards for the industry.
The R&D team announced that its single-junction perovskite cell has achieved a conversion efficiency of 26.9%, while its perovskite-heterojunction silicon tandem cell has reached an efficiency of 32% for small-area devices, maintaining stable performance for 1,000 hours at 85°C without degradation.
Solar tracker maker VG Solar announced that its new-generation XTracker solar trackers have successfully passed TÜV SÜD’s wind tunnel tests. TÜV SÜD conducted a comprehensive review of the product series, covering structural design calculations, reliability evaluation, supply chain management, factory systems, real-world installation cases, and after-sales service. As a result, the XTracker series obtained TÜV SÜD’s Bankability Assessment Report and Wind Tunnel Test Report, demonstrating its technical reliability and project financing feasibility.
Leading inverter and energy storage manufacturer GoodWe reversed its losses in the third quarter of 2025. Announcing its Q3 financial results recently, the company reported a year-over-year (YoY) growth of 17.42% in revenues, to RMB 2.11 billion. Its adjusted net profit grew 106.09% to RMB 47.87 million. This is the company’s first profitable quarter of 2025 on an adjusted basis.
For the first 9 months of the year, cumulative revenues totaled RMB 6.19 billion, up 25.3% YoY. However, given the losses incurred in H1 2025, its cumulative adjusted net loss for the 9-month period totaled RMB 0.97 million.