Leading solar manufacturer JA Solar has announced that it has received 9 Top Brand PV 2025 awards from the renowned market research firm EUPD Research. These awards span Australia, Africa and Latin America, including key countries like South Africa, Kenya, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, and Colombia. The company highlights that this recognition is especially significant as all these markets experience extreme climate conditions, ranging from hot and humid regions and arid desert environments. JA Solar’s strong performance in these markets underscores the reliability and adaptability of its PV modules, which consistently deliver high efficiency even in the toughest environments.
JA Solar recently became the first PV company to join the TNFD Adopter community by publishing the ‘industry’s first’ TNFD report (see China Solar PV News Snippets).
Italy-based solar module manufacturer FuturaSun has officially started construction on its integrated manufacturing and utility-scale solar project in Lingwu City, Yinchuan, Ningxia. The total planned investment for the project is RMB 6.5 billion ($890.41 million), to be carried out in 2 phases.
It said that Phase I will involve an investment of RMB 2 billion ($273.97 million) to build a 5 GW solar module plant and a 500 MW perovskite pilot production line. Phase II will see an additional investment of RMB 4.5 billion ($616.44 million) for an 8 GW HJT solar cell factory.
Leading solar PV encapsulation material supplier Hangzhou First has released its annual report for 2024. The company’s revenues declined 15.23% year-on-year (YoY) to RMB 19.15 billion ($2.62 billion), while net profit attributable to shareholders was down 29.33% YoY to RMB 1.31 billion ($178.45 million).
PV encapsulation film sales for the year were up 24.98% YoY, totaling 2,810.56 million m2, while its PV backsheet sales were down 33.50% to 100.55 million m2. The company attributed the mismatch between shipment volume and revenue performance primarily to falling prices. Meanwhile, both sales volume and pricing of PV backsheets declined, leading to a substantial drop in revenue for that segment as well.
TrinaStorage, leading solar manufacturer Trinasolar’s energy storage arm, has unveiled the Elementa 3 large-capacity energy storage platform. Elementa 3 integrates a high-capacity 500 Ah+ battery and is said to deliver improved energy density, round-trip efficiency, and lifecycle throughput. With these improvements, its Levelized Cost of Storage (LCOS) is reduced by 12.5% compared to its predecessor. The system adopts a compact side-by-side and back-to-back configuration, reducing land footprint by 11.3%. In addition, the company says Elementa 3’s operational efficiency has improved by 90%, thanks to one-click station upgrades and real-time monitoring.
TrinaStorage also released operational data from its Elementa platform deployed at a pilot site in Shandong Province, showing that after 500 days of testing, the product demonstrated high reliability under extreme conditions, achieving a grid-side energy efficiency of 87.13%.
Last month, Trina’s Elementa 2 liquid-cooled ESS received a 20-year full lifecycle Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) certification (see China Solar PV News Snippets).
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has released the 2025 Work Plan for Industrial and Informatization Standards, which aims to strengthen standard system development for emerging industries and proactively lay the groundwork for future-oriented standards.
The document highlights the importance of reinforcing standards for key sectors such as photovoltaics and lithium batteries. It calls for accelerated formulation and revision of classification and grading standards for advanced PV, new energy storage, and high-performance lithium batteries. It also emphasizes breakthroughs in critical technical standards for smart PV and lithium battery recycling, using high-standard benchmarks to drive R&D in key materials, technologies, and products.
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