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Badge of Excellence Awardees 2023

JA Solar’s Innovations across the value chain

Shravan Chunduri

JA Solar is one of the eight companies awarded an excellence badge for 2023, indicating that it ranked among the TOP 10 in TaiyangNews TOP SOLAR MODULES for at least six months in 2023. This special edition summarises JA Solar’s progress with its featured products in TOP SOLAR MODULES, highlighting the company’s product and technology developments (download company feature report below) 

In Summary, JA Solar is a global leader in vertically integrated photovoltaic manufacturing with in-house capability of producing wafers, cells and modules, primarily focusing

on supplying modules. This focus is complemented by its ventures in photovoltaic materials and equipment industries, along with PV+ application solutions. As of the end of 2023, JA Solar had reached a production capacity of 85 GW for silicon wafers, 85 GW for cells, and 95 GW for modules.
The company has several manufacturing facilities under construction across China, Vietnam, and the USA. It expects to reach 100+ GW of capacity for wafers, 100+ GW for cells, and 100+ GW for modules in 2024.

JA Solar has also established a division for photovoltaic materials, producing high- quality, stable auxiliary materials and equipment to support its supply chain continually. Additionally, it has expanded its operations into the downstream power station sector, engaging in business models such as Build-Own-Operate (BOO), Build- Operate-Transfer (BOT), and Energy Management Contract (EMC). As of December 31, 2023, the company owned photovoltaic power stations with a total capacity of 2.165 GW.

While the company has been actively engaged in R&D on several cell technologies, its current mainstream offering is based on TOPCon. Having commenced mass production in Q3 2023, the company introduced the DeepBlue 4.0 Pro, the latest product series featuring the Bycium+ TOPCon cell technology.