{"id":28688,"date":"2019-03-13T05:35:31","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=28688"},"modified":"2019-03-13T05:35:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:05:31","slug":"longi-solar-factory-mb0972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/longi-solar-factory-mb0972\/","title":{"rendered":"Longi Boosts Solar Panel Production Capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-28689\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/longi-solar-panel-factory-1024x573.jpg\" alt=\"Longi Solar Panel Factory\" width=\"1024\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/longi-solar-panel-factory-1024x573.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/longi-solar-panel-factory-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/longi-solar-panel-factory-768x429.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/longi-solar-panel-factory.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Longi Solar has announced Phase 1 of its monocrystalline module factory in Chuzhou, China is now fully operational, with Phase 2 not far behind.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Once complete, the Chuzhou factory will have an annual production capacity of 5GW.<\/p>\n<p>Phase 1 (2.5GW) produced its first module in January and is now in &#8220;full swing&#8221;. Phase 2 is in the commissioning stage and will commence full production soon.<\/p>\n<p>Among the solar panels to be produced by the factory is Longi&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.longi-solar.com\/home\/events\/press_detail\/id\/50_LONGi_Solar_Launches_Half-cut_Bifacial_PERC_Hi-MO3_Module_rated_at_320W_on_the_Front-side.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hi-MO3<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/double-glass-glass-glass-bifacial-panels-hell\/\"> bifacial<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/photovoltaic\/monocrystalline\/\"> mono<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/half-cut-solar-cells-panels\/\"> half-cut<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/perc-solar-panel\/\"> PERC<\/a> module. That&#8217;s quite a mix of technologies, and I&#8217;ve linked to further info on each those terms in case you&#8217;re curious.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn 2019, our company identified a gap between fast-growing global orders and our high-efficiency cell and module capacities,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.longi-solar.com\/home\/events\/press_detail\/id\/98.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Li Wenxue, President of Longi Solar. &#8220;LONGi Chuzhou factory will greatly narrow this gap. Besides manufacturing, the factory will also facilitate the transformation of technological and technical achievements to the mass production of new products.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Longi also announced it intends to proceed with its 45GW monocrystalline silicon ingot and wafer capacity expansion plans for 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">According to a recent report from GlobalData, the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-panel-shipment-rankings-mb0948\/\">shipped 7.2GW of modules in 2018<\/a>, well up on 2017&#8217;s 4.4 GW and placing Longi Solar 4th in global solar panel shipment rankings for the year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">The company&#8217;s products first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/longi-solar-panels\/\">appeared in Australia<\/a> in 2017 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/longi-solar-review.html\">reviews of Longi Solar panels<\/a> by Australian customers who have had the modules installed for at least a year have to date been quite positive.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Longi Comments On Hanwha Q-Cells Patent Infringement Complaint<\/h2>\n<p>In other recent news from Longi Solar, the company last week addressed Hanwha Q-Cells&#8217; announcement it has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/hanwha-q-cells-patent-mb0966\/\">filed patent infringement complaints<\/a> against JinkoSolar, Longi Solar and REC Group.<\/p>\n<p>Longi said at that point (March 7), it had not received any legal case documents about the complaints, nor any official business correspondence from Hanwha Q-Cells regarding the issue prior.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In preliminary analysis of the media information, the patent family used by Hanwha Q- CELLS in the complaint is acquired through multiple transfers and transactions from other research institutes; and act as a co-owner to the patents,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/in\/news-releases\/longi-s-statement-on-media-reports-of-hanwha-q-cells-patent-infringement-842021384.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the company states<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Longi says there are several opposition procedures against the patents in Europe, and claims there is considerable uncertainty as to the validity of the patent rights.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Furthermore, from a technical perspective, the current technology used in LONGi&#8217;s products is not the same as the technology contained in the disputed patents: the disputed patents are about ALD technology while LONGi uses PECVD technology.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>ALD = <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atomic_layer_deposition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Atomic layer deposition<\/a><br \/>\nPCVD = <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plasma-enhanced_chemical_vapor_deposition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hanwha Q-Cells says patent infringement complaints relates to its solar cell passivation technology, but little further detail was provided in the announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longi Solar has announced Phase 1 of its monocrystalline module factory in Chuzhou, China is now fully operational, with Phase 2 not far behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":28689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-battery-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - 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