Industry Updates

JinkoSolar has announced the signing of a contract with Yalong Hydro for 287.4MW of its n-type Tiger Neo modules. Located in Sichuan Province’s Yajiang County, the project will exclusively deploy Tiger Neo bifacial modules (72c), further evidence of the growing popularity of Jinko’s high-efficiency n-type modules for large-scale projects.

Growatt has exhibited at GENERA, Spain’s major event for the solar and storage sectors, showcasing its diversified smart energy solutions, including its battery-ready energy storage system, high power C&I inverters, smart EV chargers and new solar generator – the Infinity 1500 portable power solution.

600W+ modules in a webinar hosted by PV Tech. Empirical data analysis of ultra-high power PV modules dominated the session, with experts from TÜV Rheinland, CPVT and Trina Solar itself looking at the reasons behind 210 Vertex’s high energy yield.  

LONGi has supplied 19.2MWp of its high-efficiency modules for a project at Changi airport, designed and executed by Terrenus Energy, a leading solar IPP in Singapore, awarded phase 2 of the ‘SolarLand’ project (SL2) by JTC Corporation.

Sungrow has announced it is to make its award-winning portfolio of inverters available in the Swedish, Norwegian and Danish markets, with a knowledgeable local team and plans to implement on-the-ground support covering project management, commissioning and operations and maintenance.

LONGi and Masdar have jointly held a signing ceremony in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, to mark an agreement under which LONGi is to supply its high efficiency modules to Masdar’s wholly-owned affiliate, Source Trading Company, for the 230MW Garadagh solar plant, the first utility-scale plant in Azerbaijan.

Sungrow has announced that it will work with Danish EPC BeGreen on its first partnership in Denmark. The project involves the installation of 320MW for a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) pipeline, all to be integrated with the company’s industry-leading inverters.

JinkoSolar has announced the signing of a 50MW order for its latest Tiger Neo N-type TOPCon modules with REEPRO, one of Vietnam’s largest EPCs. The 72HC modules will be installed on C&I rooftops, with the first batch arriving in Vietnam at the end of July.

At a ceremony in Riyadh attended by LONGi and its partner GTek Solar (Green Technology Company), it has been announced that LONGi has been awarded a module supply contract for the 400MW (DC) Rabigh Solar PV IPP project in Saudi Arabia via its EPC contractor, China Energy Engineering Group, Guangdong Power Engineering Company (GPEC).

JinkoSolar has announced that its Malaysian facility has become its first overseas “RE100 factory” through its full-scale use of renewables, 100% of the electricity used in the production and operational activities supporting the factory’s 7GW solar cell and 7GW module capacity being green in nature. This is also China’s first overseas manufacturing facility to be powered entirely by renewables.