{"id":37340,"date":"2020-02-13T05:31:36","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T19:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=37340"},"modified":"2020-02-13T05:31:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T19:01:36","slug":"solar-shipments-rankings-mb1405","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-shipments-rankings-mb1405\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Solar Panel Manufacturers In 2019 (Shipments)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37341\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/solar-panel-shipments.jpg\" alt=\"Solar panel shipments in 2019\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/solar-panel-shipments.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/solar-panel-shipments-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/solar-panel-shipments-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/solar-panel-shipments-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There were no big surprises in GlobalData&#8217;s top ten list of solar panel manufacturers for global shipments last year, but capacity shipped among the big players grew significantly.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The first seven rankings remained unchanged from the previous year. Here&#8217;s how GlobalData&#8217;s rankings look along with capacity shipped in 2019 and growth on 2018:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>JinkoSolar &#8211; 14.2GW (+25%)<\/li>\n<li>JA Solar &#8211; 10.3GW (+17%)<\/li>\n<li>Trina Solar &#8211; 9.7GW (+20%)<\/li>\n<li>Longi Solar &#8211; 9.0GW (+25%)<\/li>\n<li>Canadian Solar &#8211; 8.5GW (+20%)<\/li>\n<li>Hanwha Q Cells &#8211; 7.3GW (+33%)<\/li>\n<li>Risen Energy &#8211; 7.0GW (+46%)<\/li>\n<li>First Solar &#8211; 5.5GW (+104%)<\/li>\n<li>GCL &#8211; 4.8GW (+17%)<\/li>\n<li>Shunfeng Photovoltaic &#8211; 4.0GW (+21%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Out of the ten, all are Chinese companies except for Q Cells (South Korea), Canadian Solar (Canada) and First Solar (USA). But all of the above manufacture some or all of their panels in China with the exception First Solar (Malaysia, USA and Vietnam).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cChinese manufacturers will continue to dominate as the overall leader in solar installations in 2020 as newer emerging markets in SE Asia, Latin America and the Middle East mark their presence on the solar map as demand centers,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaldata.com\/chinas-jinkosolar-preserves-its-leading-global-solar-pv-module-shipment-rank-in-2019\/\">said<\/a> GlobalData&#8217;s Ankit Mathur. &#8220;China, the US, Europe and India will continue to remain the major markets for the solar module suppliers.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Things are looking pretty good in Australia too, <a href=\"https:\/\/onestepoffthegrid.com.au\/flying-start-for-rooftop-solar-in-2020-with-33-per-cent-boost-in-january\/\">with a report of another 206MW<\/a> just in commercial and home <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/solar101.html\">solar systems<\/a> (&lt;100kW capacity) registered in January. However, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/coronavirus-solar-panels-mb1403\/\">impacts of the coronavirus COVID-19 on supply<\/a> over the next couple of months have sent jitters through the local solar energy industry, which may have to look to non-Chinese brands to fill the gap while China gets up to speed again. That&#8217;s assuming COVID-19 doesn&#8217;t have further nasty surprises in store.<\/p>\n<h2>A Lot Of Solar Panels &#8211; And Clean Electricity<\/h2>\n<p>Between the top ten as ranked by GlobalData, an estimated 80.3 gigawatts of module capacity was shipped during 2019 (63GW in 2018, so + 27%). 80.3 gigawatts would work out to around 229.4 million 350 watt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/\">solar panels<\/a>. As a very rough and conservative guesstimate, 80.3 gigawatts of solar panels could generate 117,238 gigawatt-hours of electricity annually &#8211; 117.238 terawatt-hours.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017\u201318, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov.au\/sites\/default\/files\/australian_energy_statistics_2019_energy_update_report_september.pdf\"> total electricity generation in Australia<\/a> (all sources) was 261 terawatt-hours.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of the top ten, there are of course a bunch of other module manufacturers. GlobalData says the top 10 manufacturers accounted for more than 75% of all module shipments in 2020, so the total figure probably nudged the 100GW mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were no big surprises in GlobalData&#8217;s top ten list of solar panel manufacturers for global shipments last year, but capacity shipped among the big players grew significantly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":37341,"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-37340","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) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Top 10 Solar Panel Manufacturers In 2019 (Shipments)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There were no big surprises in GlobalData&#039;s top ten list of solar panel manufacturers for global shipments last year, but capacity shipped grew significantly\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-shipments-rankings-mb1405\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Top 10 Solar Panel Manufacturers In 2019 (Shipments)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There were no big surprises in GlobalData&#039;s top ten list of solar panel manufacturers for global shipments last year, but capacity shipped grew significantly\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-shipments-rankings-mb1405\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SolarQuotes Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SolarQuotes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-02-12T19:01:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/solar-panel-shipments.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Bloch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-shipments-rankings-mb1405\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-shipments-rankings-mb1405\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Top 10 Solar Panel Manufacturers In 2019 (Shipments)\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-02-12T19:01:36+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-shipments-rankings-mb1405\/\"},\"wordCount\":391,\"commentCount\":15,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-shipments-rankings-mb1405\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/solar-panel-shipments.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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Late last week, JinkoSolar announced its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2019. 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Jinko shipped 11.6 GW of modules during the year GlobalData says. So, how many panels is that? Figures weren't provided, but just as a general idea, if the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General Solar &amp; Storage News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General Solar &amp; Storage News","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/category\/solar-battery-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"2018 Solar Panel Shipment Rankings","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/panel-shipment-rankings.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/panel-shipment-rankings.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/panel-shipment-rankings.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/panel-shipment-rankings.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":44692,"url":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/ja-solar-chairman-mb1755\/","url_meta":{"origin":37340,"position":4},"title":"JA Solar Chairman Reportedly Detained","author":"Michael Bloch","date":"November 10, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Chinese solar panel manufacturing giant JA Solar's shares have gone south again. Here's what triggered the latest drop. Yicai Global is reporting JA Solar Chairman and CEO Jin Baofang has been detained by the supervisory commission of Pingdu city, northeastern Shandong province in China. 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The Hi-MO 4 series was launched back in 2019 and according to Longi, 10 gigawatts of the panels were shipped within a year of mass production. 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