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LONGi sets industry record of 24.53GW of solar module shipments in 2020 Email
LONGi Solar’s external PV module sales in 2020 were 23.96GW, a year-on-year increase of 223.98%. Image: LONGi Solar
‘Solar Module Super League’ (SMSL) member LONGi Solar has reported total PV module shipments of 24.53GW in 2020, setting a new industry shipment record and leapfrogging rivals to become the largest PV manufacturer in the world for the first time.
LONGi Solar’s external PV module sales in 2020 were 23.96GW, a year-on-year increase of 223.98%, while shipments to in-house PV projects made up only 570MW of the total module shipments of 24.53GW.
LONGi Solar had external sales of 6.57GW in the first half-half of the year as the company’s external sales topped 17GW in the second half of 2020.
China’s Battery Power Storage Expected to Grow Tenfold by 2025
A member of State Grid staff looks at an energy storage facility in Hangzhou on April 7, 2021. Photo: IC Photo
With China ramping up its renewables capacity to fulfill Beijing’s carbon reduction pledges, the country’s power storage capacity from batteries is expected to increase tenfold by 2025, which could help defeat the daily feast-famine cycle in wind and solar power output.
Total battery capacity for power storage in China through 2025 is predicted to top 35.5 gigawatts (GW), up from 2020’s 3.27 GW in a conservative scenario, according to a report that industry group China Energy Storage Alliance released Wednesday. The forecasted figure could climb further to 55.9 GW if new wind and solar power installations increase significantly over the next five years.
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The world’s green power surge depends on polysilicon made in China’s remote Northwest. No one really knows what’s going on inside the facilities.
In the wilderness of the Gobi Desert sit two factories that churn out vast quantities of polysilicon, the raw material in billions of solar panels all over the world. It’s a four-hour drive from Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region at the center of China’s crackdown on Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities. The only structures that rise up among miles of rolling snow-covered fields are the chimneys of coal-fired power plants, belching white smoke.
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