BEIJING, Dec. 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- JA Solar Holdings
Co., Ltd., one of the world's largest manufacturers of
high-performance solar power products, today announces the output
power of its 60-cell PV modules assembled by mono-Si PERC cells
has exceeded 325W. The actual output power of 326.67 W
measured and certified by TUV SUD sets a new world record for
60-cell mono-Si PV modules.
As one of the largest PV product manufacturers in the world, JA
Solar has been instrumental in developing advanced PV technologies
through invention and innovation. In 2010, the Company filed
an invention application for its industrial PERC cell
structure and the method of production, the patent was granted
by the Patent and Trade Mark Office of Chinese National Bureau
of Intellectual Properties in 2012. In 2013, JA Solar was the first
company to break the 20% conversion-efficiency barrier
for the industrial version of PERC solar cells using
screen-printing metallization process, and started mass production
of PERC-based cells and modules in the following year. JA Solar
also holds the intellectual property rights for bifacial PERC
cells with a Chinese patent granted by the National Bureau of
Intellectual Properties of China
in 2016.
PERC technology has increasingly become the mainstream approach
for high-performance PV products in the past few years. According
to SEMI PVITR, PERC products will account for 40% of total product
shipments by 2020. The advance of PERC technology as well as the
wide adoption of the technology have significantly impacted on the
solar powered energy generation in terms the reduction of levelized
cost of energy and grid parity. Currently, the average power
output of the 60-cell PV modules assembled with mono-Si PERC cells
JA Solar offers is 300W. This newly set world record is a
result of JA Solar's unwavering commitment of continuous
performance improvement, as well as its strong R&D effort and
drive devoted for advancing PV technology. It is also a result in
preparation to meet the technological challenge of the "Front
Runner" initiative as a showcase for the PV industry set forth by
the Chinese government. PERC has been the favored products for the
initiative since it officially started. In 2016, JA Solar
provided 422MW PV modules with 40% of them being mono-Si PERC for
the first 1GW demonstration phase of this "Front Runner" initiative
as the largest module supplier in the project.
"Setting a new world record of over 325W output power from a
60-cell mono-Si PV module is remarkable achievement enabled by PERC
technology," said Dr. Wei Shan,
Chief Technology Officer of JA Solar. "It is also a testament of
the unrivaled efforts at JA Solar that focus on developing
high-efficiency, cost-effective PV products meet the ever increased
demand for clean energy through technological innovation and
continuous performance improvement, as well as the commitment and
the tradition of JA Solar to provide our customers high-performance
PV products with high quality and reliability."