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COVERING ALL MARKET OPPORTUNITIES: JinkoSolar The pandemic might have caused a temporary slowdown but business is on the up and up for module maker JinkoSolar which is confident of gaining a greater slice of the solar PV market.
JINKOSOLAR CAN LAY CLAIM to many firsts, among them the first module manufacturer to join RE100 that brings together the world’s most influential companies committed to power all their operations with 100 per cent renewable energy by 2025. The goal comes with a tangible plan: JinkoSolar’s drawing board includes the development of new factories in renewablerich regions to facilitate green electricity sources, investing more in onsite solar and deploying solar and storage projects on all suitable rooftops. These sit among a host of other efforts to drive long-term sustainability,
Anita Li says JinkoSolar is looking forward to a productive 2021 as utility scale solar plans take shape after this year’s pandemic pause
according to JinkoSolar ROA&ANZ General Manager Anita Li. The timing is suitable, as the company bounces back from the pandemic that caused a “small sequential decline” in the JinkoSolar scorecard which saw a record year for shipments in 2019 before the virus took hold. Despite the bumpy start to this year the module shipment guidance of 18GW to 20GW during 2020 remains the same for the company that has an integrated annual capacity of 20GW for mono wafers, 11GW for solar cells, and 25GW for solar modules. Module shipments, Li reported, hit a record high of 3,411MW, an increase of 12.3 per cent from 3,037MW in the first quarter of 2019 and total revenues increased by 25.1 per cent from the first quarter of 2019. “Since most of the projects scheduled for 2020 have been
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