Chint Solar, a unit of China-based power transmission and distribution equipment provider Chint Group, signed a cooperation framework agreement with the government departments of Qiyang City, Liancheng County and Linqing City, central China’s Hunan Province on August 4, involving a total installed capacity of about 980 MW. Chint’s capitalization also exceeded RMB 100 billion yesterday
GCL System Integration and Southwest Power Design Institute (SPDI) of China Power Engineering Consulting Group signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Suzhou, east China’s Jiangsu Province on August 3. The agreement stipulates that from September 2021 to December 30, 2022, SPDI will purchase no less than 1 GW of modules from GCL System Integration, which are all high-efficiency module products.
Chinese solar PV module manufacturer Jinko Solar recently has provided Ford Motor with 13.5 MW high-efficiency photovoltaic modules to enable clean power for the parking shed of Ford factory in Pretoria, South Africa. This is the largest photovoltaic parking shed in South Africa and Ford’s largest clean energy parking shed in the world, which consists of 31,000 piece of modules provided by Jinko Solar, covering more than 70,000 square meters, so as to generate green power. The shed will be used to park new Ford cars, which is expected to meet 30% of the power demand of the plant, reduce 15,240 tons of carbon emissions every year, and the rest of the power will also be used to power the electric vehicles in the charging station.
The Certification Department of Chinese solar PV inverter provider SOFARSOLAR recently claimed that its grid connected inverter of 75-136 kW power section successfully obtained the VDE-AR-N 4105 Certification, marking SOFARSOLAR’s dedication and strength into the R&D, highlighting the leading position of core technology in the industry. It also laid a solid foundation for the rapid landing of SOFARSOLAR high-power string inverter in the German industrial and commercial market.
Enshi Hydropower Co., Central China branch of China Huaneng Group recently signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Enshi Municipal People’s Government of Hubei Province. According to the agreement, the company plans to invest in the development of new energy projects such as Dalongtan 300,000 kW pumped storage power station, wind power generation and photovoltaic power generation in Enshi City.
Liaoning Energy of China Energy recently signed a cooperation framework agreement on the development of 500 MW rooftop distributed photovoltaic project with the people’s government of Xiuyan Manchu Autonomous County, Anshan City, northwest China’s Liaoning Province. The two sides will establish a comprehensive strategic cooperation relationship, give full play to regional advantages, strengthen cooperation in new energy projects, promote the development of distributed photovoltaic projects in the whole county, and plan to use 50% of the party and government organization buildings, 40% of utility scale, 30% of industrial and commercial and 20% of residential roofs in the county to build photovoltaic projects.
Market research company PV InfoLink recently released the ranking of module shipments in the first half of 2021, and Longi swept the top position once again. Trina Solar rose from third to second, and JA Solar, Jinko Solar and Canadian Solar ranked third, fourth and fifth respectively, Followed by Hanwha Q Cells, Risen, First Solar, Suntech and Chint. In addition, the market share of the top ten has been further improved compared with that in 2020, since under the background of rising silicon material price, the capacity scale of second-line module enterprises is difficult to compete with that of first-line enterprises, resulting in the loss of more markets.
