{"id":28103,"date":"2019-03-07T06:26:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T19:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=28103"},"modified":"2024-10-03T09:39:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T00:09:27","slug":"tongwei-solar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/tongwei-solar\/","title":{"rendered":"Tongwei Solar: The Biggest Solar Company You’ve Never Heard Of"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Who The Hell Are Tongwei Solar?\u00a0 The Good, The Bad, And The Weird.<\/p><\/div>\n

Tongwei Solar<\/a> is not well known in Australia.\u00a0 While it’s possible goldfish fans\u00a0are aware Tongwei Group<\/a> is the world’s largest producer of fish food, their solar subsidiary is very low key.\u00a0 This is despite it being one of the world’s largest producers of solar cells (if not the largest<\/a>) with a production capacity of 12 gigawatts.\u00a0 To put that in context, they produced more solar cells last year than have ever been installed in Australia1<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>\n

There are two main reasons why nearly no-one here has heard of Tongwei Solar.<\/p>\n

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  1. While they produce around 350 megawatts of solar panels a year, they are not sold in Australia and aren’t on the CEC’s approved list.2<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n
  2. Apart from making a quantity of solar panels that’s small compared to the giants of the industry<\/a>, they don’t appear to do anything other than purchase silicon ingots from other companies, slice them like salami, turn them into solar cells, and then sell them to panel manufacturers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    While some companies<\/a> are vertically integrated and produce their own silicon ingots, cut them into solar cells, and then make solar panels, Tongwei Solar’s focus is mostly on producing solar cells.\u00a0 They clearly believe solar power will continue to grow as they claim in 3-5 years they will have 30 gigawatts of cell production capacity and supply over 10% of the world demand.\u00a0 If they’re correct and supply 11% of demand, that would mean in 3-5 years world solar panel production would be 270 gigawatts compared to the estimated 104 gigawatts<\/a> installed last year.<\/p>\n

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    According to their website, Tongwei Solar has the most streamlined organizational structure of any company in the world.<\/p><\/div>\n

    Company Locations<\/h2>\n

    Tongwei Solar has cell production capacity in two locations:<\/p>\n