{"id":39658,"date":"2020-05-11T07:24:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T20:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=39658"},"modified":"2020-05-11T07:24:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T20:54:10","slug":"trina-solar-undertaking-mb1518","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/trina-solar-undertaking-mb1518\/","title":{"rendered":"Trina Solar Enters Enforceable Undertaking With Clean Energy Regulator"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Trina<\/p>\n

In what appears to be a faux pas rather than an attempt at fraud, Trina Solar (Australia) Pty Ltd has copped a rap over the knuckles for a solar panel certification slip-up.<\/p>\n

China’s Trina Solar<\/a> is a panel manufacturing heavyweight – last year it shipped an estimated 9.7GW<\/a> of module capacity globally and its panels are quite popular here in Australia.<\/p>\n

On Friday afternoon, the Clean Energy Regulator (CER) announced<\/a> it had accepted an enforceable undertaking relating to any ineligible solar panel serial numbers uploaded by Trina Solar into the Solar Panel Validation (SPV) Service. Any panels with ineligible serial numbers wouldn’t qualify for Small-scale Technology Certificates (STCs), i.e. Australia’s “solar rebate<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

There’s nothing at this point to suggest this was a purposeful action on Trina Solar’s part – just a blunder; and Trina has been cooperating with the investigation.<\/p>\n

The Undertaking notes:<\/p>\n

“The relevant solar panels were ineligible because the relevant panels were either manufactured in facilities that did not hold the proper certification at the time of manufacture or were manufactured to an outdated standard.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However, word on the street is it was just a case of the wrong factory noted on the approval documentation. If that is the case, how it might affect the final outcome isn’t clear.<\/p>\n

Trina Solar has committed to a number of actions in the enforceable undertaking, including:<\/p>\n