On May 26, the three-day annual International Photovoltaic Power Generation and Smart Energy Conference & Exhibition (SNEC) officially concluded. During this PV event, Yingli Solar attracted continual attention with its Panda 3.0 series for sea, land, and air scenarios, a number of top PV industry awards and recognitions, the proposal of the Green Chain Community collaboration concept for cooperating on and sharing carbon neutrality, and the release of its first ESG report. These highlights demonstrate Yingli Solar’s achievements over the past year and draw a blueprint for its future development.

Yingli PANDA, the precious pearl of N-type technology, becomes visitors’favorite

“What is the maximum conversion efficiency of this cell?” “How is the reliability of Ocean Star?”

During the exhibition, the Panda 3.0 N-Type TOPCon cells and the Ocean Star series modules based on Panda N-Type TOPCon technology on display became the focus.

Yingli Solar, the first company in China to engage in the research and development of N-type technology, took the lead to independently research and develop the technology in 2009 and named it Panda technology. Since then, Yingli Panda has become a precious pearl in the N-type area and even the PV industry.

Taking advantage of the technology accumulation and project application results over the past 14 years, Yingli Solar’s core technical team optimized its structure and process to effectively reduce electrical and optical losses while improving cell efficiency, make new breakthroughs in cell conversion efficiency and bifaciality, and realize crucial energy efficiency improvement. As a result, the conversion efficiency of Panda 3.0 N-type TOPCon cells in mass production can be ≥ 25.5% !

The ocean series modules based on Panda N-type TOPCon technology follow the current trend of sea floating modules. They crack the pain points of the sea environment, including strong winds, thick salt fog, highly corrosive, and high installation costs, with high conversion efficiency, special new technology, new materials, and innovative installation structure. These features have made them customized products perfectly matched with offshore floating power plants and favored by customers at the exhibition, who signed several orders.

Ten highlights and top recognitions mark the return of the Yingli Solar brand

During the exhibition, Yingli Solar received awards and recognition, including the APVIA Awards of Contributions to Industry, of Scientific and Technological Achievements, of Photovoltaic Application; EUPD’s Top Brand PV; PVEL’s the Top Performer Mark of 2023; the Terawatt Diamond Award of SNEC’s “Top 10 Highlights”; and PVBL Global Pioneer Photovoltaic Storage Product Design Award 2023 among other awards and recognitions.

All of these pointed to the return of the glorious Yingli Solar.

“These high prizes recognize our past achievements and motivate us to achieve more,” said Yingli Solar’s Vice President Dr.Vincent Yu. Through the PV cycle, Yingli Solar has stayed true to its original aspiration. In the future, it will carry forward technological innovation, branding building, and the leadership of quality. It will continue to provide innovative impetus to the industry with its 25 years of experience and accumulation and boost the green and high-quality development of the PV industry.

An innovative collaboration concept for cooperation on and sharing carbon neutrality

“We have been using Yingli Solar‘s products for so many years and there have been no problems.” This is the unanimous comment of many long-term customers during the partnership of over 25 years.

At every session from the first SNEC to now, there were old customers who visited Yingli Solar’s booth to check new products. There were also new partners who were attracted by Yingli Solar’s fame and come to seek collaboration.

At the exhibition, Yingli Solar raised the Green Chain Community collaboration concept. It has established closer strategic partnerships with a number of domestic and international partners, including GD Power Hebei Newenergy, CR Power North China Branch, and Munich Re.

“The relationships between enterprises are not limited to competition and collaboration. Under the grand vision of a community with a shared future for mankind, enterprises constitute a green chain community with shared interests and interdependence on the path toward carbon peaking and carbon neutrality. By raising this collaboration concept, Yingli Solar hopes to seek more shared interests between upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain, supply chain, and innovation chain, and reduce zero-sum games. We can complement each other’s strengths and collaborate. As a result, we can achieve corporate growth in all aspects and better boost the healthy and sustainable development of the industry, thus contributing more to carbon peaking and carbon neutrality in China and even the world."

Yingli Solar’s first ESG report fuels zero carbon changes with N-fold fusion

On the site of the exhibition, Yingli Solar’s Vice President Cindy Hu released Yingli Solar’s 2022 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report for global customers. It is another initiative of Yingli Solar to promote a green community with a shared future following the Carbon Neutral Action Plan (White Paper) and the Action Initiative on a Green Supply Chain Contributing to Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality.

The report presents Yingli Solar’s environmental, social and governance highlights in 2022. In terms of the market, it saw doubling production and sales volume and profiting in the first year. In terms of the brand, it won BNEF’s Tier 1 Module Manufacturer and RETC’s Top Performer. In terms of technological innovation, it filed 100 patents and was authorized 50 patents throughout the year, both of which are record highs.

For its outstanding ESG performance, Yingli Solar was included in the China New Energy Industry ESG Value Index jointly compiled by the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Machinery and Electronic Products and other organizations in March this year.

Tagged by innovation, collaboration, sharing and green, the SNEC in the summer of 2023 has concluded but the future of Yingli Solar has just started. Next, there will be Intersolar Europe in Munich, Germany, on June 14 to 16; Intersolar South America in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on August 29 to 31; The GREEN Expo in Mexico on September 5 to 7; and Solar Power International in the United States on September 11 to 14. There are new surprises on the way, and please stay tuned.