The global solar PV manufacturing landscape is evolving rapidly, with technology roadmaps diverging across regions. While China advances beyond first-generation TOPCon into back-contact (BC) and hybrid architectures, hubs like India, Europe, and North America are balancing TOPCon expansion, HJT, and tandem concepts.
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Energy storage solution provider GoodWe has broken ground on the second phase of its new energy industrial park in Guangde, Anhui Province. The company plans to invest RMB 538 million in the project, which will provide 6 GWh of annual energy storage system (ESS) production capacity, primarily for the large-scale storage market.
GoodWe’s existing phase-one facility in the park has reached stable production and mainly manufactures residential energy storage products. Once the second phase is fully operational, the Guangde base is expected to cover residential, commercial & industrial (C&I), and large-scale ESS.
Earlier this week, GoodWe signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Shenzhen Institute of Computing Sciences to establish a joint innovation center dedicated to AI and smart energy (see China Solar PV News Snippets).
Energy storage battery and system manufacturer Pylontech plans to invest RMB 18.769 million in a new energy storage inverter production line at its existing manufacturing base in Hefei, Anhui Province. The line is designed to produce 120,000 inverters annually in the 0-30 kW power range. The company has submitted an environmental impact assessment report for the project to the local government.
The Hefei site currently has 5 GWh of pouch lithium-ion battery capacity, while another 5 GWh of aluminum-cased lithium-ion battery capacity is under construction. Pylontech also plans to develop a 2 GWh energy storage battery and system integration project at the site.
Trinasolar’s distributed solar development subsidiary TrinaPower forecasts that more than 70% of new small-scale distributed PV projects in China will include energy storage by 2030, according to its China Small-Scale Distributed PV and Energy Storage Development White Paper. The report defines small-scale distributed PV-plus-storage systems as user-side installations of up to 400 kW designed primarily for self-consumption and local consumption.
Assuming 70% of projects add storage sized at 20% to 50% of PV capacity with 2 hours of duration, average annual additions of user-side storage would reach 4.2-10.5 GW/8.4-21 GWh from 2026 to 2030, creating a related market worth more than RMB 500 billion. These projections are based on forecasts in the white paper.
TrinaPower has also launched its V100 program to recruit 100 channel partners nationwide and introduced an AI model combining PV and storage equipment, financing, operations and maintenance, electricity trading, and AI-based energy management.
TrinaPower recently signed an agreement with DaoCloud to develop a coordinated power-computing platform and regional token factories integrating renewable energy generation with computing (see China Solar PV News Snippets).
China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and National Energy Administration (NEA) have issued the country’s 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030) for the oil and gas sector. The plan includes provisions to expand renewable energy and storage around oil and gas production areas. The plan calls for the orderly development of solar, wind, and geothermal power in and around oil and gas fields, higher electrification rates, and the creation of green, low-carbon, and zero-carbon oil and gas fields. It also supports the coordinated use of wind, solar, storage, and regulating resources alongside integrated source-grid-load-storage systems.
The plan encourages the joint operation of gas-fired power and new energy, positioning gas generation to provide peaking support for China’s new-type power system. It also backs the use of depleted oil and gas reservoirs, salt caverns and pipelines to develop underground storage technologies such as compressed-air energy storage, with these facilities operated alongside nearby renewable power plants. In refining and petrochemical operations, the plan calls for green power and, where appropriate, substitution with clean, low-carbon hydrogen. It does not set specific capacity targets for new solar, wind or energy storage installations.
